OSNews > Thread > "RE[2]: So what" by Ford Prefect

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Dec 2006 19:55 UTC, submitted by diegocg

As part of the 2.6.20 development process, patches adding support for the 'PS3 game console and other devices' (built on top of the IBM Cell) have been merged. The code has been written by Sony.

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RE[2]: So what

by Ford Prefect on Wed 6th Dec 2006 20:56 UTC in reply to "RE: So what"

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2006-01-16

If you would have done some research on this topic you would know that the GPU is hidden deliberately.

There is already a nvidia driver out there for this chipset.

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RE[3]: So what

by zdzichu on Wed 6th Dec 2006 22:43 in reply to "RE[2]: So what"

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2006-11-07

There is no driver for this chipset, only some binary blob for x86. Cell BE beeing PowerPC chip has no way to run this thing.

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