PlayStation 3 GPU Accessed though Linux?


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QJ.net reports that "some hackers have announced that they've discovered a way to access the 3D contexts on the Graphics Processor Unit of the PlayStation 3. If what they say is true, then this will allow homebrew developers to create their own 3D applications for the console.

CNLohr posted a video on YouTube of the PlayStation 3 running some code in Linux. Allegedly, the hypervisor is talking with the nVidia RSX video card of the console to render the three animated quads in the foreground and the triangles in the background.

According to CNLohr, the demo being used is a modified version of IronPeter's libps3rsx from ps3dev.org. For those who want to try replicating his setup, the PS3 is running using a patched 2.6.24 experimental, unofficial kernel on Gentoo Linux".

See the video: http://n4g.com/tech/News-89605.aspx

Things are moving along nicely (Y)

If we nail this, the PSP and PS3 will be the choice for homebrew this generation! (the PSP has already won in the handheld market)

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just if linux ran windows games.... crysis or something on PS3 would run great i imagine

I wouldn't go that far :p

Depending on how far this develops though, we could potentially get Linux games running!

World of Warcraft PS3 :laugh:

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just if linux ran windows games.... crysis or something on PS3 would run great i imagine

Maybe with 10 years of homebrew development there will be a way to play Crysis on the minimum settings on the PS3.

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just if linux ran windows games.... crysis or something on PS3 would run great i imagine
Linux can run many Windows games.

The problem with Linux on a PS3 is that you have a different CPU type, so you would need an emulator (dog-slow) to play PC games designed for the x86 platform.

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Yeah, I doubt well see any PSP calibre homebrew on the PS3, even though initially thats what everyone was expecting.

If they crack the PS3 properly - I think we will see homebrew of a much bigger caliber than the PSP :D

I cant wait

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PS3 RSX Access through Linux videos - step closer to homebrew

Here are 2 video recorded attempts of accessing the PS3's nvidia RSX through Linux to hopefully give users the joy of playing homebrew. The videos show how close hackers have come to opening up the PS3 and the RSX was accessed via a loophole in the PS3's hypervisor which allows small code to be processed.

Source: http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=23369

More demo vids!

We're getting there ;)

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Interesting stuff.

Unfortunately, I'm sure sony will plug this loophole pretty quickly.

Not if I pop that network cable out of my PS3 they won't.

Oh, and remove the console's MAC address from my WAP's access control list.

Maybe a firewall rule denying outbound traffic for good measure, and that loophole will enjoy a nice lengthy stay on the console.

Of course this is a figurative PS3 as I do not yet own one. Still, same conditions apply.

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