[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3, Fedora 8 and IBM Cell SDK v3.0

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On 31/12/2007, at 20:48, Robert McGwier wrote:

> Andrea Barbieri wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> before venturing down this path (and no search facility for the
>> cbe-oss-dev Archives) I would like check if anyone before has  
>> attempted
>> to install Fedora 8 on a PS3 (40GB-PAL version) and get the IBM  
>> Cell SDK
>> version 3.0 fully functional.
>>
>> on the official IBM Cell Broadband Engine Architecture forum this
>> thread:
>> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa? 
>> messageID=14012194
>> doesn't bring any confidence/official confirmation.
>>
>> many thanks,
>> andrea
>
>
> It works.  I have it on four PS3's, and QS21's and QS20's.  I have NOT
> been able to get F8 to install directly on the PS3.  I did upgrades  
> from
> F7.  That was not completely pain free but it took less than an  
> initial
> installation by a lot and preserved my /etc content.  I have cross
> compiled large applications and even a kernel (the latter with some  
> pain
> as some of the stuff in scripts has to be recompiled for the target
> before you do any make *install stuff).

To install FC8 directly, take a look at the workarounds shown in  
these two bugs:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389301
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389331

With that, it should work pretty flawlessly.  Then install the SDK as  
usual and get to work :-)

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino at ac.upc.edu>