Ken Werner has written a nice guide to installing Fedora 11 on the PS3. (And I’ve added the link to the Linux distro page).
Inside Ken’s page is some details on installing and running demos from the recent “OpenCL Development Kit for Linux on Power”, which is something I’m now even more keen to try :)
(It seems a little odd that the only place that OpenCL SPE acceleration is mentioned is in one of the FAQs…)
hello, is this something someone with a very low knowing of linux should do? i want an other OS in my PS3 but im not sure if this will ruin my console. please some advice.
Thanks
It’s low risk – hard to ruin your console.
pdaXrom-ng doesn’t require an install (beyond the bootloader). I’d suggest starting with that.
Improving 16384 SHA1 rounds on all 7 SPE with OpenCL is my challenge, I’ve got good results.
You seems to be another one: did you devel some OpenCL stuff on PS3?
On PS3 I’ve not done much more than proving that I could get it working :P There seems to be better ways to get performance out of the PS3, and the Cell doesn’t appear to have much of a future…