Installing Fedora Core 6 on PlayStation 3

Follow the instructions at:
"Retyped here for convenience (and in case link ever goes away). I also removed the last few pages of information regarding starting the X Server. This takes too many resources, and we're only interested in getting it on the network and running GNU Radio, anyway.

You'll want to have a USB/RF keyboard attached to the PS3 at this point.

Installation Instructions

  • On your USB flash drive:
    • Create a directory named PS3
      • Create a subdirectory of PS3 called otheros
    • From PS3 add-on CD, copy /kboot/otheros.bld to flashdrive:/PS3/otheros
    • Copy otheros.self downloaded above to flashdrive:/PS3/otheros
  • Format your PS3's harddrive (this will erase all data on the entire drive)
    • There are four options for a 60 GB harddrive:
      1. All to PS3
      2. All to Other OS
      3. 10 GB to Other OS and rest to PS3
      4. 10 GB to PS3 and rest to Other OS
    • choose either option 2 or 4.
    • In the XMB menum, go to Settings --> System Settings --> Format Utility
      • Be sure to select Quick format (10 seconds) or you'll be waiting 3.5 hours.
  • Start loading the Other OS
    • Plug in the USB flashdrive
    • In XMB navigate to Settings --> System Settings --> Install Other OS
      • The console should automatically detect the necessary files on the flashdrive
      • Follow the prompts to install the bootloader onto the hard drive
  • Change default OS to Other OS
    • Settings --> System Settings --> Default System: change from PS3 to Other OS
  • Reboot the system.
  • At the kboot command prompt, enter: install-fc sda
  • Insert the Fedora 5/6 DVD when asked
    • Hit y on the keyboard and enter to begin the installation process
    • Select Full Installation
  • Wait... a while. The PS3 looks frozen for a bit, then it will start installing files. This process takes 4 - 5 hours.
  • When the DVD automatically ejects, insert the PS3 add-on CD when asked and hit yes
  • When the CD automatically ejects, enter the password when asked
  • Type reboot and hit enter
  • Start hacking

Installation of GNU Radio on FC6 on the PS3

  • Enable the development repositories for Yum
    • In /etc/yum.repos.d/ edit fedora-development.repo and enable all repositories by setting enabled to 1
    • In /etc/yum.repos.d/ edit fedora-extras-development.repo and enable all repositories by setting enabled to 1
      • I also had to use the baseurl instead of the default mirrorlist to resolve the packages
  • Install FFTW, CPPUNIT, USB, SDCC, guile, numpy, wxPython and SWIG
yum install fftw-devel cppunit-devel libusb-devel sdcc alsa-lib-devel guile numpy wxPython
tar xjf swig-1.3.31.tar.gz
cd swig-1.3.31
./configure && make && sudo make install
  • SDCC is installed in a slightly strange way here, so fix some of the links:
ln -s /usr/bin/sdcc-sdcc /usr/bin/sdcc
ln -s /usr/bin/sdcc-asx8051 /usr/bin/asx8051
ln -s /usr/bin/sdcc-sdcpp /usr/bin/sdcpp
ln -s /usr/bin/sdcc-aslink /usr/bin/aslink
  • Get the GNU Radio installation from Subversion and install it
svn co http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk
cd trunk
./bootstrap
./configure
make
sudo make install
  • Set PYTHONPATH to point to the default /usr/local installation directory:
    • export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/
    • Set this in you're login script ~/.bashrc to automatically load on login

Audio

Audio is an unresolved issue. Success was reported with native PS3 sound on Yellow Dog but not on FC6 yet.

An investigation on the use of the Atlas/Janus/Ozy hardware from the HPSDR project is underway. This is an open source (GPL) and open hardware project (contributions are covered by the TAPR [http://tapr.org] Open Hardware License The combination of boards mentioned here are available from TAPR. They are quite inexpensive for this level of hardware. Taken together they provide a USB2 interface to a 200 kHz wide baseband IF system with a pulse width modulator and codec for microphone and speaker connections. Bill Tracey (kd5tfd@XXXXewjt.com) is a GnuRadio user, HPSDR contributor, has a PS3, and is working on using this interface under Linux for several DSP projects including [http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki]. and DttSP "h1. Using GNU Radio

The normal flow graph control in Python is broken and we haven't found a fix for it yet. (fixed in [6212":http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dttsp-linux]) However, the new method of running the scheduler and flow graphs is to use hier_block2s. This will eventually become the standard way of handling the flow graphs when version 3.2 is released, which deprecate hier_block. The hier_block2 work in the PS3, although there are a few bugs and unresolved issues. Most basic items work, though.

To test a GNU Radio example, use the example code found in:

gnuradio-examples/python/hier

Specifically, to test that the USRP works, run:

cd gnuradio-examples/python/hier/usrp
./usrp_siggen.py -T <A|B> -f <frequency>

There are some unresolved issues with the hier_block2's, but this simple example runs fine.

Installing the IBM Cell SDK version 2.1

If you want to write code that takes advantage of the Cell SPE's,
you'll need the IBM SDK.
The SDK requires FC6.* Download the SDK2.1 iso * Make sure you've got these prereqs installed:
yum install ed freeglut freeglut-devel libXmu-devel libXext-devel gcc make perl rsync flex byacc netpbm netpbm-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libX11-devel numactl numactl-devel

* Follow the instructions starting on page 13 of ""Software Development Kit 2.1 Installation Guide"":http://www-304.ibm.com/jct01004c/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?brandind=5000008&lndocid=MIGR-65726 * When you're ready to install, do:
./cellsdk install --nosim --nokernel
./cellsdk build --gcc



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