[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/9] Add a target definition for OpenWRT on PlayStation 3

[Jeremy Kerr]

The ps3 has a small area of non-volatile memory for a bootable OS
- typically a bootloader, but there's no reason we can't use OpenWRT
for this!

These patches add a ps3 target to openwrt. At present, we only have a
read-only filesystem, but this still allows us to build a kexec-based
bootloader, and we get the nice ultraconfigrability of openwrt (ssh to
your bootloader!).

The openwrt .config for doing this is a little tricky, as we have to
build a biarch toolchain, and this needs some extra gcc & binutils
configure options. I've put my working .config here:

  http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/cell/ps3-openwrt/config-2007-10-23

I'm still getting my head around the openwrt build infrastructure - is
there any way to add this as a default config for ps3?

To make a working bootloader, I still need to do some work on the
kexec-tools package, and petitboot too. But this series of patches will
get a basic openwrt install up and running on ps3.

Comments and suggestsions most welcome.

Cheers,


Jeremy