Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2020-03-19 03:04:59 [-0700], Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> But I wonder how alive the whole PS3 support is to start with.. > > OtherOS can only be used on "old" PS3 which do not have have their > firmware upgraded past version 3.21, released April 1, 2010 [0]. > It was not possible to install OtherOS on PS3-slim and I don't remember > if it was a successor or a budget version (but it had lower power > consumption as per my memory). > *I* remember from back then that a few universities bought quite a few > of them and used them as a computation cluster. However, whatever broke > over the last 10 years is broken. > > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS Last time I asked on the list there were still a handful of users. And I had a patch submitted from a user as recently as last October, so it still has some life. cheers
