[Cbe-oss-dev] installation-report: debian 7.1 wheezy installation success on PS3

[Declan Malone]

On 8 August 2013 04:37, Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 01:58 +0100, Declan Malone wrote:
> > On 8 August 2013 00:19, Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >  It's great to know that this is still working. However, I still have
> > one big problem with my PS3: the spufs still doesn't work. I can load
> > programs on the SPUs but nothing shows up under /spu and spu-top
> > doesn't show any processes (though it does seem to show an increasing
> > load across SPUs).
>
> That sounds like this one, which I believe landed in 3.10:
>
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6747e83235caecd30b186d1282e4eba7679f81b7
>
> cheers
>
>
>
That's great. But I don't see any option to install a 3.10 kernel from my
wheezy install. And as I said, I haven't been able to get any recent
kernels that I compiled myself to run. I think that the problem is that I'm
running 3.55 firmware with Debian running under OtherOS++ and there's no
support in the kernels for this. Is that right? I also tried applying all
the patches in Geoff's directory to the stock kernels, but that doesn't
work either.
Now I'm stuck...
I'm considering just wiping everything and starting again by using the 3.55
"QA Flag CFW with SS patches" to ... "downgrade [my] ps3 from 3.55 to lower
[3.15, I believe] firmwares" (according to the ps3devwiki
instructions<http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/OtherOS%2B%2B>)
then doing a regular OtherOS install of wheezy in the original Sony 3.15
firmware. That's a lot of hassle, though, so if I could find instructions
for building a 3.10 kernel under OtherOS++ that would be a much better
option for me. Could anyone help me out with that? Or is downgrading the
better option?
Also, on a somewhat related note, I see that libspe was dropped from Debian
a while back. What are our options for getting that back? I have several
versions of the source lying around, but I'm wondering which one I should
build? I'm assuming that the most recent one is best, but I think it was
dropped from Debian because of some errors with it?
Once again, I'd really appreciate some help/advice on this. I've been
trying for ages to get all these problems sorted, but without success.
Seeing that wheezy still works and that the spufs problem has been fixed is
getting my hopes up that I can finally get everything back working again
like I had it before Sony messed everything up.
Cheer,
dec
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