Fai0verflow: Linux on the PS4 [video]

Post by chejazi » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 3:12 AM UTC

JohnBooty wrote: post #56

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Something to keep in mind is that it's becoming a trend that companies sell the systems at a loss (Notably, I think the only company that doesn't is Nintendo). Especially for the beginning of it's life, this is only practical if it's a closed system - Because if it wasn't, then they're essentially just offering the hardware at a huge discount to people who have no intention of buying any games, and the games is where…

but I remember that being part of the reason why the 'Other OS' feature was removed from the PS3 - Places/People were buying them up and running Linux on them because they were such a good deal for the hardware. Wait, really? The PS3 was outclassed by generic PC hardware pretty quickly, and wasn't much faster than a netbook unless you were writing some seriously multithreaded or PS3 GPU-specific code. I never heard o…

Post by ekianjo » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 4:09 AM UTC

shmerl wrote: post #62

3D acceleration - WIP :) So will PS4 users who complain that they can't play Witcher 1 & 2, be able to play them on Linux there?-)

Post by mmozeiko » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 4:33 AM UTC

chejazi wrote: post #61

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but I remember that being part of the reason why the 'Other OS' feature was removed from the PS3 - Places/People were buying them up and running Linux on them because they were such a good deal for the hardware. Wait, really? The PS3 was outclassed by generic PC hardware pretty quickly, and wasn't much faster than a netbook unless you were writing some seriously multithreaded or PS3 GPU-specific code. I never heard o…

> The PS3 was outclassed by generic PC hardware pretty quickly I agree here. Running Yellow Dog Linux [0] on my PS3 was a fun weekend project, but it never came close to replacing my dedicated computer. I didn't even notice the update that removed it, which in hindsight could have been pretty bad had I used it more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux

Post by SXX » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 4:55 AM UTC

anthk wrote: post #45

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Considering that tweet it's totally possible: https://twitter.com/fail0verflow Xorg changes not really required because AMD GPUs work just fine on top of modesetting driver.

And what about MESA?

Post by chejazi » Thu, Dec 31, 2015, 5:14 AM UTC

mmozeiko wrote: post #65

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> The PS3 was outclassed by generic PC hardware pretty quickly I agree here. Running Yellow Dog Linux [0] on my PS3 was a fun weekend project, but it never came close to replacing my dedicated computer. I didn't even notice the update that removed it, which in hindsight could have been pretty bad had I used it more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Dog_Linux

People were not running Linux on PS3 for desktop/server usage. They were running it there for scientific computations. This was before GPGPU (cuda/opencl) became better price/performance choice.