FreeBSD Running On PS3

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 10, 2011 @02:48AM 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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Running in OtherOS, not natively by ard · 2011-01-10 02:54 · 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.
*NOT* related to the recent crypto break by fgrieu · 2011-01-10 02:55 · 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