Fedora/PowerPC on PlayStation 3

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Nov 20 13:41:13 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 13:02 +0000, Keith G wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but will this actually allow a linux game to
> take full advantage of the graphical capabilities of the PS3?  Or are
> there restrictions preventing this? 

Unfortunately it doesn't -- the Linux video support is currently just a
linear framebuffer. Hopefully Sony will get a clue and open it up a
little more some time soon.

We may well find a way to abuse the SPUs to do acceleration in the
meantime :)

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dwmw2




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