It occurs to me that this might be of interest here. The rest of the thread is in debian-boot.
Kenshi Muto wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Takeshi Yaegashi, who is my friend, succeeded to install Debian > on SONY PlayStation 3 (PS3). PS3 is PPC64 architecture and > some Linux distributions and NetBSD are already ported for PS3. > > His wiki describes how you can install Debian on PS3 by using his > customized Debian-Installer: > http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/Debian/Installer > SVN diff against current d-i trunk (still under development, > he is carefully changing d-i to keep small): > http://www.keshi.org/moin/moin.cgi/PS3/Debian/Installer/Porting > > Although I haven't PS3, it's very interesting that d-i merges > his PS3 PPC specific patch for post-Etch. > > I talked with him for a while and he pointed some TODO. > > 1. We need newer kernel or patched kernel to support PS3 architecture. > 2. We have to ITP ps3pf-utils package to use video on X and some > features. > 3. We have to use new kboot.udeb instead of other PPC installer. > kboot is Linux based boot loader and can be installed from > SONY official kit. It finds a boot configuration from the > partition has specific label and loads the file. So we don't > have to install something to install boot sector. kboot.udeb > just locates the configuration file kboot.conf to /etc directory. > > Thanks, > - -- > Kenshi Muto > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> > > iEYEARECAAYFAkWaQRIACgkQQKW+7XLQPLEjWgCfe43uecBQxrPbWQ6NeR/7S51b > XacAoMPWBWn8mA+IBpEVBVwU0fKTXLWJ > =9QPL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- see shy jo
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