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 No.8784

If I build a program from source with the correct compiler for my architecture, the binary should work, right (provided it doesn't use any proprietary libraries)?

I'm thinking of install Gentoo on my ps3 because of Portage. I haven't tried Gentoo at all, but from what I've researched, it looks likes it would be the best bet for up to date software support and maximum street cred (autism). I'd use Debian if the repos weren't so goddamn slow (also systemd).

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 No.8871

Sounds cool, but what would you use it for? Just running a playstation emulator and playing games seems a bit circuitous. Being able to play around with controller input, a shell, and basic graphical applications would be a lot of fun though.

From what I understand, Gentoo supports the Power architecture that PS3 is built off of, but my concern would be that drivers for the co-processor and other hardware/io aren't supported for the (mainline) linux kernel. You can hack your way around that, but it'd be out of my comfort zone at least.

If you're asking whether you could run binaries used by the normal PS3 operating system within a Gentoo system, then I'd assume the answer is no, because they could have entirely different object file formats, linking, etc.

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 No.8880

>>8871

>running a playstation emulator and playing games

Ironically, that'd probably run like shit without being optimized for the playstation hardware.

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 No.8882

I had YellowDog Linux PPC running on my PS3 back in the day. As of 1 April 2010, PS3s were patched and had the OtherOS feature removed. I'm not entirely sure it is possible, but if you have a PS3 unpatched and prior to this, then it should work with Gentoo PPC, but you might have to steal the otheros.bld and kboot with configs from YellowDog to get it to work specifically.

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 No.8896

PPC/64 Linux is in a god awful state. Gentoo is about the only option you still have and even they admit it isn't on their list of priorities. Everyone else has moved onto PPC64el which begins at POWER8. Cell is based on POWER4.

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