[ydl-gen] No video hardware acceleration on PS3

[ugo]

You're so right Brian, somebody has to jump first... I wish I could if I
wasn't in Europe.
And that's also why I'm not confiant in Sony (plus the rootkit story): they
said the ps3 release would be all over the world for the same day. Marketing
rules...
Whatever.

You say that Terrasoft is not to blame, and that's true for sure. No
operating system developer can be blamed for not making the work of
industrials who are the one who should give drivers for their products. If
it was the case all Linux distributions would be greatly blamed for many
driver problems and that would be more than unfair: completly absurd.

Tell me if I'm wrong:
Who took the decision of this hypervisor filter and why ?
Sony ? they are just building RSX but it is an NVidia product.
NVidia ? for them that's certainly Sony trouble.
I supose that if we try to find out who's behind this to ask an help, we
would lost a lot of time.
The real trouble seems that NVidia driver's codes are not opened, so it may
be difficult for linux communities to work on it by their own.

I still not understand what is exactly this "hypervisor filter stuff" (I
wish i will...) but I guess that it will be long to pass through because it
seems to be a complex trouble first, and then because it wont be easy to
find a legal way to friendly develop and distribute the solution.


Any information is wellcome !

2006/11/15, Brian Wood <beww at bresnan.net>:
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>
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> On Nov 15, 2006, at 1:22 AM, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>
> > Well, the lack of 2D and 3D graphics acceleration has been confirmed
> > on the YDL website (I think recently - I don't remember its being in
> > the FAQ earlier). I think this situation is laughable - why would
> > anyone spend this money on a machine with such lame graphics? For
> > this price, one can get a fully functional PC with a supported
> > graphics card (something I would do if I didn't have strong
> > objections to X86).  I have no interest in games, so I think I will
> > give the PS3 a miss. The Cell processor is quite interesting and I
> > will continue to use my fully functional powerbook in OS X until a
> > well supported Cell machine becomes available (if ever).
> >
>
>
> I agree with you in general, no support of accelerated video is a
> major problem.
>
> But it *is* a start. When I first started playing with Linux you had
> to purchase a commercial X server if you wanted support for a (then)
> state-of-the-art Mach-64 card. Later you had to pay if you wanted a
> NeoMagic laptop graphics adapter supported. Both these situations
> were ultimately rectified, and didn't stop folks from running Linux
> on such hardware.
>
> I wonder if any of the commercial vendors like Xi will be making
> drivers for the PS3 video ? (Do they even still exist?).
>
> And I suspect that it is Sony that is to blame for the situation, not
> Terrasoft. Terrasoft has been nothing but good for the Linux
> community while Sony is so arrogant as to honestly believe that
> installing rootkits on user's machines without their OK is legitimate
> protection of their "rights".
>
> If nobody starts to run Linux on PS3s there will be no development.
> Somebody has to be the first to dance.
>
> So maybe I'll buy a PS3 anyway.
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