[Cbe-oss-dev] kernel-2.6.20-rc6 on PS3

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 26 January 2007 00:40, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 
> > As I understand it, the 2.6.20 includes PS3 support as standard (comfirmed
> > by the PS3 options in menuconfig), so why doesn't it work?  Any advice you
> > could give me would be greatly appreciated, sorry if this question is a
> > bit too basic for you guys!
> 
> The PS3 support in the plain vanilla 2.6.20-rc6 kernel is not complete. 

I wonder if more people have run into this problem already, or will
before all vital drivers get merged. Kconfig currently doesn't warn
at all about the fact that PS3 support is complete.

Should we maybe have a patch in for now that warns about it and that
gets reverted when it has become usable?

	Arnd <><

--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -525,12 +525,15 @@ config PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE
 	select UDBG_RTAS_CONSOLE
 
 config PPC_PS3
-	bool "Sony PS3"
-	depends on PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC64
+	bool "Sony PS3 (incomplete)"
+	depends on PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC64
 	select PPC_CELL
 	help
 	  This option enables support for the Sony PS3 game console
 	  and other platforms using the PS3 hypervisor.
+	  Support for this platform is currently incomplete, so
+	  enabling this will not result in a bootable kernel on a
+	  PS3 system.
 
 config PPC_NATIVE
 	bool