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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-ppc-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:05:15
Message-Id: 492BF807.2010108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes by Nelson Batalha
1 On 25-11-2008 2:52, Nelson Batalha wrote:
2
3 > Will this bootable disk be only to the ps3?
4
5 Plausibly maybe, much depends on the bootloader you pick to install on
6 the ps3...
7
8 > What problems are you having building it?
9
10 Basically spare time.
11
12 > If so, afaik the livecd and stage4 could be
13 > released in the same file, since a livecd can be
14 > only a stage4 with a specific boot config file if I recall.
15 > A simple install procedure could be written so a user would
16 > appropriately copy the cd contents to the disk.
17
18 It does exist already...
19
20 > (I was actually writing a GTK gui that did just that along
21 > with specific ps3 configurations).
22
23 Check the graphical installer available in recent releases, I'm quite
24 sure would be nice having a patch to support the ps3 target.
25
26 > It's really annoying to compile everything from a stage3,
27 > are you dropping stage4 support for it?
28
29 I'd suggest to use a cross-distcc setup to speed things up...
30
31 lu

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RE: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Playstation3 port status woes Nelson Batalha <nelson_batalha@×××××××.com>