Making an update or not?

drcd · Post by **drcd** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:33 am

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?

Thx

Post by **Warren** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:40 am

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.

ldesnogu · Post by **ldesnogu** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:50 pm

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? :)

Post by **Warren** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:28 pm

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.

drcd · Post by **drcd** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 4:28 am

Warren wrote:If you're just using your PS3 to code, you might as well leave it at 1.6

No I use it to play, too. So you think that if a hack comes, it will come with FW version of the moment?

Post by **Warren** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:20 am

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.