From what I have seen of the several videos of both YDL and
Fedora
Core distributions on the PS3, I am cautiously optimistic.
The
graphics seemed faster than one would expect from just a
framebuffer
and I think I can live with it as both a computer for
mundane uses
(web browsing, email, etc.) and software development on the
Cell (my
main interest). It just might serve as a platform for me to
migrate
to after Apple's unfortunate recent switch of architectures.
Possible
support of the hardware might come latter, though I am not
holding my
breath (until then, I can do my number crunching on the PS3
and use
my Powerbook for graphics via the 1000baseT connection).
On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:32 PM, thexder insightbb.com wrote:
> http://ps3mods.blogspot.com/2006/11/ps3-and-yellow-
dog-linux-
> playing-1080i.html
>
> Someone else might want to try this in order to verify
the validity
> of the video. I'd love to besides the fact that I
don't yet have a
> ps3.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Wood <bewwbresnan.net>
> Date: Saturday, December 2, 2006 19:24
> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration
on PS3
> To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User
Topics
> <yellowdog-generallists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>
> >
> > On Dec 2, 2006, at 4:26 PM, drbob wrote:
> >
> > > Warren Nagourney wrote:
> > >
> > > As a potential end user, one of my the
biggest things that
> > excited me
> > > about the PS3 was the potential to use it as
a High Definition
> > Mythtv> frontend. I'm now worried that this may
not be possible.
> > >
> > > Framebuffer graphics are often inadequate to
play back even a
> > standard> def mpeg on x86 hardware without a
lot of skipped
> > frames and juddering
> > > in the picture. Does this news mean that PS3
Linux will be
> > pretty much
> > > useless for video playback in SD and/or HD?
> >
> > There was some brief discussion of this on the
Myth user's list
> > the
> > other day. Without any accelerated video I think
HD would be
> > pretty
> > much out of the question, and even SD would be
questionable.
> >
> > So at least for now it's not a viable HD frontend.
Too bad, it
> > would
> > have been great, but things might well change in
the future.
> > If
> > somebody were to develop commercial video drivers
under an NDA
> > I'd
> > certainly consider paying for them. I paid for
commercial Mach-
> > 64
> > drivers back when that was the only way to get
those cards to
> > work
> > properly in Linux.
> >
> > I believe in Open Source but I'm not a fanatic
about it 
> >
> > Terrasoft has certainly taken the first step,
without which no
> > future
> > progress would even be thinkable.
> >
> > But first we have to get our hands on the
hardware, and
> > competing
> > with all the gamers out there will be a trial
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