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drcd
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 Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:33 am Post subject: Making an update or not? |
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Hi,
According to your opinion, is it better for devlopment to keep my ps3 in 1.6 and wait for a hack which is able to run OpenGL in hardware mode or update the Firmware? And does the toolchain works on the 1.92 version of the FW?
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Warren
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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If you're just using your PS3 to code, you might as well leave it at 1.6
At this point I am unaware of anyone who is actively trying to write a RSX driver / reverse engineering the interface to it. And lets be honest, there aren't any opensource ATI drivers for linux (yet) so I doubt we'll have full HW accelerated OpenGL on the PS3 anytime soon.
Yes, the toolchain works for FW 1.92, and I doubt it will ever not work for any firmware updates as it runs under linux which is a stable environment. |
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ldesnogu
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Warren wrote: | | And lets be honest, there aren't any opensource ATI drivers for linux (yet) |
You meant Nvidia, or are you talking about Xbox 360? :)
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Warren
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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Hehe, ummm, errr yeah nVidia :)
In which case, maybe someday we'll be able to steal stuff from the Nouveau drivers but I still doubt that it will happen anytime soon. |
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drcd
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| Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| Warren wrote: | If you're just using your PS3 to code, you might as well leave it at 1.6
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No I use it to play, too. So you think that if a hack comes, it will come with FW version of the moment? |
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Warren
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| Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| Who knows. To be honest we don't even know if we're being blocked from accessing the RSX, we might just not have drivers for it. |
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