PS3

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CURRENT STATUS of openSUSE on PS3: Planning Stage - no current reports of success. At least, first hardware arrived. If you have any info please help by updating this page

The Sony PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) is based on a 3.2GHz Cell Microprocessor, with 256MByte GDDR-VRAM. The processor is PowerPC compatible. The alliance of (IBM/Sony/Toshiba) who created the Cell processor have been active creating Linux kernel patches for the processor since Linux Kernel 2.6.13. Sony has created kernel patches specific for the PS3 in Linux Kernel 2.6.20, as well as maintaining the GNU toolchain (gcc, binutils etc).

Hardware Requirements

• A computer to download and copy files on to media.
• Playstation3 with:
  • USB Keyboard and Mouse
• Any of the following recording media:
  • USB Flash or HD drive
  • CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVE+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, BD-R, or BD-RE disc
  • If the PS3 has memory card slots: Memory Stick, SD memory card, or CompactFlash.

Software Requirements

• openSUSE 10.3 for PPC
• Other OS Boot loader (kboot)

Instructions

Preparing Media

• On your recording media create the following folder structure, note that there is a requirement to use single-byte characters only.

PS3
|-otheros

Download otheros.bld and copy to the 'otheros' folder you created on your media

Installation

Configuring the PS3

• Select Settings -> System Settings -> Format Drive. Note that you will loose any saved game info. Create two partitions one for the PSP3s normal use and one for openSUSE.
• Insert the media in the PS3
• Select Settings -> System Settings -> Install Other OS. The PSP3 will display the installers it can find. Click OK to start the installer.
• Follow the instructions of the Sony installer.
• To boot into the Other OS, select Settings > System Settings > Default System > Other OS. This causes the 'Other OS Boot loader' to be loaded on every boot.
  To force the PS3 to boot up normally hold down the Power button for about 5 seconds or more at power on. This is in case you do not have a keyboard. with a keyboard you can use boot-game-os command to reboot to the PS3 game os.

Installing openSUSE

Resources

• PS3 Linux Distributor's Starter Kit

Other Distros on PS3

• Fedora 5 on PSP3
• Ubuntu on PSP3 - Installs Ubuntu by using basic Fedora installation

PS3, PLAYSTATION, Memory Stick and any other trademarks that appear on this page are owned by their respective owners, but you already knew this.