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

[John Crispin]

funky funky funky

i need to get one of those babies i think and test my Xorg port on it :-)

and there is another incentive to finish the mediacenter packages :-)  
i wish i had more time :P




Quoting Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>:

> 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
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