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FreeBSD Running On PS3

Posted by kdawson on from the what-took-so-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One week after Sony's PlayStation 3 private cryptography key was obtained, FreeBSD is up and running on the PS3. Nathan Whitehorn writes: '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.'" Update: 01/10 15:04 GMT by KD : As several commenters have pointed out, the submission was misleading in that BSD runs in OtherOS, making no use of the cracked keys.

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  1. Firmware 3.21 by project-nova · · Score: 4, Informative

    From TFA:

    Supported hardware:
    - Sony Playstation 3 Fat, firmware version 3.21
    - Netbooting only
    - 480i/480p only

    !News

  2. Running in OtherOS, not natively by ard · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is no relation to the cracked keys, as it runs in the OtherOS mode. I.e. instead of Linux, you can run FreeBSD in OtherOS.

  3. *NOT* related to the recent crypto break by fgrieu · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is *NOT* related to the recent crypto break, as demonstrated by the release note stating

    Supported hardware:Sony Playstation 3 Fat, firmware version 3.21

    Francois Grieu

  4. Cool - no hardware hack required by Algorithmnast · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was worried at first that I'd have to burn a chip or something equally prone to destroying an expensive toy... but after I actually researched it... here, I find that you don't have to mod the PS3 at all - you just have to create a disk that looks like a game disk to the PS3.

    And if you want to go back to PS3 behavior, you just reset the PS3 box.

    Now that is a cool hack.