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Geohot released his exploit . It needs some hw tweak such as a pic for now. As the instructions say: Usage Instructions: Compile and run the kernel module. When the "PRESS THE BUTTON IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS" comes on, pulse the line circled in the picture low for ~40ns. Try this multiple ti...

when you boot linux, why does pdaXrom-ng leave the controller on? There isn't a way to handoff the controller to the flavor of linux that you boot is there? I think you are talking about the pdaXrom-ng - based bootloader. pdaXrom-ng also is a full distribution to be used for liveCD's or bootable US...

the PS3 wireless joystick driver Sashz uses in pdaXrom-ng is derived from Jim's code, and implements a Linux Joystick device in /dev/js[0-]. There should be a way to modify it to turn the controller off after a certain period of inactivity. It sets up the LEDs correctly and does not need the bluez d...

well done ;) thanks !

I wasn't aware about this bug in gcc 4.4.1.

Hi, just to inform the sdlmame download server messes up versions. The script actually requests to download version 0.133 but the server sends 0.134 (0.133 is not available anymore). Of course, the patches are incompatible without (trivial) changes, but the compilation stops with an error about miss...

Very cool stuff. Nice work, sashz. Seems it doesn't use the SPU-accelerated framebuffer driver in SDL 1.2. Not really a problem though. As wiki.pdaxrom.org/downloads is currentlt not working, I tried to make the mame iso myself. But the compile process stops when building SDL: powerpc-ps3-linux-gcc ...

They did the same thing with regards to the IR port on the PSP - make the innovative decision to have IRDA on the Phat, then piss people off by removing it from the Slim. It's my one complaint about my Slim... I miss the IR port. :( not to mention the removal of the UMD drive on future PSP Go... I ...

androvsky wrote:No offense, but I think comments at the PS Blogs are a lot more likely to get noticed by Sony than complaints posted here or personal blogs.

Well, both is even much better (my post is #666 on the US blog, sooo evil)

David,

I included your arguments in my blog article. Please feel free to use it as a starting point or not.

Maybe some arguments are missing, but for me the most important is there: This was an arbitrary decision, it is felt like a betrayal, and it will encourage hacking.

I've just added a post to my blog, with my opinion about the situation. Rough style, but whatever. If you think some arguments are missing, please tell.

This is definitely sad news. It feel this like a treason. So much time spent on exciting development, finally condemned to going underground.

very good links, imhotep Carlos, good effort, I hadn't talked about this tutorial (which I knew about of course, I learned Cell programming by following it) because it was using libspe1. I think a problem is that you cannot only provide libspe2-"translated" code without the proper informat...

wiki.pdaxrom.org is alive again

I strongly recommend to document yourself about the basics of Cell programming. You can start with the following tutorial. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-tacklecell1/ It deals with using the MFC for memory transfers between ram and spe local store, and the following chapter talks...

well, the root.img file is a squashfs file system, generated by the build-linux-ps3.sh script from the svn. File system generation basically consists in compiling every different components of the system, then generating a filesystem image from the different generated stuff. Adding a component basic...

seems the generated psp-gcc calls a previsously installed i386 assembler. weird.

I just tested the mesa driver. glxgears runs at 75 fps (20 fps without Cell driver). I tried running gltron : Almost nothing is displayed, except the ground. All the rest of the objects are black. The animation looked relatively smooth, though (maybe 25 or 30 fps). It's a good start, but a lot of pe...

I managed to build an ISO image from the svn sources. However, the resulting image doesn't seem to boot on my ps3 (euro 60 GB model). After selecting the liveCD from the boot menu, the screen goes black and nothing happens.

For those who think they would be luckier than me, the files are here.

I managed to get the missing files from different websites, and from the svn itself (for the ps3boot source code). Here is a link to a website with the missing files and a freshly-built bootloader: http://ouasse.ath.cx/ps3/pdaXrom-ng/ I haven't tested the bootloader (no ps3 in hand right now), but i...

same for me.

The sourceforge svn is still reachable. However, some of the build scripts rely on files hosted on pdaxrom.org, so one cannot build a bootloader from the svn sources aswell.

I'll try to maintain a mirror site once the pdaxrom.org server gets alive again.

you might be even more efficient if you work on quads rather than stripes as you'll have to process less triangles per quad than per stripe. I think the larabbe papers describe that in good details :) You are certainly right. I just never got an other idea than using stripes. I will someday try and...

graphiccards have a WAY less texture cache than the spu has local store, you dont need the whole texture in it to rasterize. Well in my personal rasterizer work, I have taken advantage of that additional SPE memory, allowing to draw on much bigger zones than 8x8 squares at once. My test code can dr...

rapso, this sounds VERY interesting. Your project seems to be in a very advanced state. Have you got "viewable" results of what your rasterizer can do ?

sorry if my English lacks accuracy. for me a "rasterizer" is everything required to draw triangles on a framebuffer. Of course, you don't need textures to be able to draw triangles, but in my mind, textures are part of the job. I hope Miya will find good ideas and a lot of motivation to ge...

if we can run homebrew on the ps3 in the xmb

we definitely cannot.

J.F., I think texture mapping brings much more trouble than you think. Textures have to be loaded into SPE memory, and in the case of several textures to be mapped into different triangles, DMA transfers would certainly become a serious bottleneck. I have also written test rasterizer routines, and I...

I have had a quick look at the code, the rasterizer merely displays single-coloured triangles, and the code is supposed to be fast.

In fact, as the comments are in Japanese, I may have missed more features.

Thanks jonathan for the help. Unfortunately mplayer does not work on my setup. I tried running mplayer using -vo sdl:driver=PS3. Here is the output from my self-compiled mplayer MPlayer SVN-r29148-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Playing anthology.avi. AVI file format detected. &...

I compiled SDL with Cell support (following instructions from the README.PS3 file).

Then, I compiled mplayer with SDL support.

And then, playing videos (using options : -vo sdl) does not make use of spu's at all, according to spu-top.

I tested in X, and in fullscreen framebuffer mode.

oops, I just found the comment. it concerns revision 4476 of the svn. I'll give it a try tonight or tomorrow.