[ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3

ugo bloodysugar at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 12:46:24 MST 2006


wow as you say...

No 3D for any linux os on ps3 ?!
No Opengl, no directX... If this is definitivly impossible, linux on ps3
wont go far.
This is the baddest new i heard about ps3.

Why this ? Is this a limitation coming from Sony ?
No way to pass through ?

2006/11/13, Brian Wood <beww at bresnan.net>:
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>
> > I was shocked and very disappointed to read that there is no hardware
> > acceleration of the video on the PS3 under linux. This is from the
> > docs at http://www.powerdeveloper.org/playstation.php .
> >
> > Much of my interest was in doing OpenGL development of scientific
> > apps on the PS3. This new is shocking and has ended my interest in
> > getting a PS3 - I'll stick with OSX on my powerbook until this
> > changes (if ever).
> >
>
>
> Wow ! That's a bit of a showstopper for me as well. I was planning to
> order a PS3 but now I have to re-think the matter.
>
> Thanks for the info, you have probably saved me some $$$.
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