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

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:54 +1000, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> 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.

To borrow a saying from Jeff Waugh:

R.O.C.K !

cheers

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Michael Ellerman
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