[Cbe-oss-dev] Debian for PS3?

[Kazunori Asayama]

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Although it's been possible to install Debian on PS3 since a long time (cfr.
> http://www.keshi.org/moin/PS3/Debian/Live, or you could just use plain
> debootstrap), there's no official support for PS3 in Debian yet.
> 
> So I downloaded debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso (dated 2008-02-20), booted
> it using a self-compiled kernel and /install/powerpc/initrd.gz from the ISO
> image, and installed Debian on the PS3's hard disk without any glitches!
> 
> Hence what's missing?

(snip)

>   - PS3 Boot loader support
> 
>       o There's no PS3 bootloader (otheros.bld) in Debian, which means you have
> 	to use e.g. the one from the PS3 Linux Distributor's Starter Kit.  To
> 	include an otheros.bld, e.g. kboot should be packaged, including the
> 	infrastructure to build an otheros.bld.
>       o Apart from this, there's no support in the installer for setting up
> 	/etc/kboot.conf.

The recent kboot can interpret yaboot.conf as well as kboot.conf,
and Fedora uses yaboot.conf on PS3.
IIRC, the petitboot, which is a graphical bootloader for PS3, 
can also understand yaboot.conf.

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