Playstation 3 and Linux

[Sparky]

Yellow Dog and Fedora Core have both been reported running on PS3
successfully, the PPC64 distros.

My question is this: Can I run ANY PPC64 distribution, or possibly build
for PPC64 with any chance of PS3 success?

Any ideas?

[Moe Trin]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, in article <twdLh.12170$***@trnddc08>, Sparky
posted to the bogus Usenet newsgroups comp.os.linux, comp.os.linux.help,
and comp.os.linux.questions:

On the 15th of every month, there is an article posted to the Usenet groups
news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and news.lists.misc with the Subject
of "List of Big Eight Newsgroups", which lists the names and purposes of
the (roughly) 2300 newsgroups that every news server _should_ carry. The
three newsgroups you are posting to are not in that list. You'd have much
better luck posting to those groups.

[compton ~]$ grep linux big.8.list.03.15.07 | cut -f1 | column
comp.os.linux.advocacy comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.alpha comp.os.linux.networking
comp.os.linux.announce comp.os.linux.portable
comp.os.linux.answers comp.os.linux.powerpc
comp.os.linux.development.apps comp.os.linux.security
comp.os.linux.development.system comp.os.linux.setup
comp.os.linux.embedded comp.os.linux.x
comp.os.linux.hardware comp.os.linux.xbox
comp.os.linux.m68
[compton ~]$

'comp.os.linux.powerpc' is likely to be more appropriate, and I've set the
Followup-To: header to that group.

Post by Sparky
Yellow Dog and Fedora Core have both been reported running on PS3
successfully, the PPC64 distros.

See the article beginning on page 70 of the April 2007 (issue 156) of
"Linux Journal" - you may find an on-line copy on www.linuxjournal.com.
Apparently, you need two files available on the Internet to even talk to
the box. One is from Sony (www.playstation.com/ps3-openplatform) and the
other from Terra Soft Solutions
(www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/ps3/otheros.bld).

Post by Sparky
My question is this: Can I run ANY PPC64 distribution, or possibly build
for PPC64 with any chance of PS3 success?

I don't know why not, although the LJ article says "Sony actually
contracted with Terra Soft Solutions to produce a version of it's Yellow
Dog Linux (henceforth YDL) for the PlayStation 3, a smart move considering
that Linux people were going to cobble together a solution anyway." That
suggests that Sony though it possible - though one wonders about the
video setup (NVIDIA graphic processor with 256 Megs of separate video RAM).
I also don't know what instruction set the CPU is using - it's an IBM
processor, and that may require a different compilation.

Old guy