[patch V2 07/15] powerpc/ps3: Convert half completion to rcuwait

[Michael Ellerman]

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de> writes:
> On 2020-03-19 03:04:59 [-0700], Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> But I wonder how alive the whole PS3 support is to start with..
>
> OtherOS can only be used on "old" PS3 which do not have have their
> firmware upgraded past version 3.21, released April 1, 2010 [0].
> It was not possible to install OtherOS on PS3-slim and I don't remember
> if it was a successor or a budget version (but it had lower power
> consumption as per my memory).
> *I* remember from back then that a few universities bought quite a few
> of them and used them as a computation cluster. However, whatever broke
> over the last 10 years is broken.
>
> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS

Last time I asked on the list there were still a handful of users.

And I had a patch submitted from a user as recently as last October, so
it still has some life.

cheers