gitbrew Releases FreeBSD LiveCD w/ Partial RSX Support


Submitted by greg; September 13, 2011
The gitbrew team, despite all the scene drama, continues working on their RSX project, now releasing a FreeBSD LiveCD with partial RSX driver support, supporting your high-def set up to a max resolution of 1920x1080 (for now). Now this LiveCD won't boot without prepping your PS3 first... You'll need the OtherOS++ CFW installed and configured prior to anything FreeBSD (or Linux). Check gitbrew's Wiki ... there is a wealth of information there to get you up and running. You can grab the FreeBSD LiveCD ISO for PS3 right here. And the other, most up-to-date OtherOS++ tools (CFW, pkgs, etc.) here. RSX -- Reality Synthesizer -- is a proprietary graphics processor co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony. - source: @gitbrew


Tags: FreeBSD, gitbrew, LiveCD, OtherOS, PS3, RSX



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# Decius 2011-09-13 12:24
Amazing!! I hope they get the RSX Driver to a fully working build, even at a partial build this is still awesome!!!

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# Israel Santini 2011-09-13 12:54
i need some more info on this it sounds kool

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# Toren Hann 2011-09-13 13:49
Sounds awesome! What's RSX?? I google and all I can find out is that it's for the PS3.....

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# -hacks 2011-09-13 13:55
It says what it is at the end of the article... RSX -- Reality Synthesizer -- is a proprietary graphics processor co-developed by NVIDIA and Sony.

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# Jack Anoto 2011-09-13 15:41
Does this mean potential ps2 or ps2 backup emulator on no BC models?

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# Romilson 2011-09-13 16:35
A pergunta é o seguinte:
Cadê as CFW´s ? Será que não haverá mais como desbloqueiar os
OFW?

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# Justin Michael Nesbit 2011-09-13 17:00
Yes, the RSX is the PS3's GPU.

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# Hiei Youkai 2011-09-13 17:50
a pergunta é o seguinte:

Don't you know Speak English on an English site? man, wtf

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# deygon lorwen 2011-09-13 18:12
Do this for FreeBSD to be a distribution of Linux pre-installed on PS3? Is it possible to clean oderos + + partition installed directly this freebsd?

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# SethM 2011-09-13 23:56
Not for a while you see what a windows PC needs to get 50 - 60FPS on an emulator...It's not a matter of processing speed as much as it is RAM. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
even with the RSX unlocked and the high bandwidth of the PS3 the lack of RAM will make it very difficult.  Not impossible but very difficult.

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# Fredrick Jones 2011-09-14 02:48
Is it me or is the site down?

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# Arturo Jimenez 2011-09-14 04:29
stop trolling bitch

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# Romilson Freitas 2011-09-14 08:41
Okay, let chewed for the baby: Where are the CFW's? Is there to be more like the unlock´s this OFW?

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# Decius 2011-09-14 11:26
I can't understand you sorry. If you mean you would like to format the current distribution on the PS3, then yes you will have to if you want to Install this FreeBSD Version.


You can optionally run this from the CD Alone without the need to install it, hence "Live CD".

There's no point towards the average user in having "Partial RSX" support, because Gitbrew already stated they released a driver which it wasn't even a Full Driver.

Until a developer patches things into a working driver Linux can utilize and draw objects with the GPU then things will get interesting/better, until then you're best off using Graf_Chokolo's Linux Kernel until a REAL RSX Driver gets released.

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# Jack Anoto 2011-09-14 15:30
Aw man. Thats like a major let down :-/. So whats a benefit of this? Just resolution?

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# Guest 2012-01-06 09:43

I cannot get the ps3 system to read this PUP file.. is it due to being on latest firmware 4.0?


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