[ANNOUNCE] Playstation 3 support now in HEAD

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:22:06 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Yesterday, I imported support for the Sony Playstation 3 into our 64-bit 
> PowerPC port, expanding our game console support into the current 
> generation. There are still a few rough edges due to missing hardware 
> support, but the machine boots and runs FreeBSD stably. These rough 
> edges should be smoothed out in time for the 9.0 release. Thanks to 
> Peter Grehan for donating the hardware that made this port possible.
> -Nathan
> 
> Supported hardware:
> - Sony Playstation 3 Fat, firmware version<  3.21
> - Netbooting only
> - 480i/480p only

Nice work! Well done!

Hmm, (showing my ignorance of PS3 technical details here) any chance
that this will work on other versions of the hardware soon?

I'm a hardware junkie, so I might buy a PS3, but I guess that version
with that low a firmware isn't very easy to get hold of were I live.
(And no, I don't play much, my ps2 slim is just collecting dust.)

-- 
Regards, 
Torfinn Ingolfsen