New PS3 Stages and Minimal CD

Folks,

I've just put out new stages for the PS3 onto the Gentoo mirrors under the experimental directories. For example, http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/ppc64/stages. There is also a new minimal install-cd. This marks the first release of new stages since June for me. There are a bunch of new changes, some of which I will call out:

• The new stages are built on 2.6.23 mainline with several PS3 specific patches. The ebuild for these sources is in the Cell overlay.
• New ps3pfutils is in both the overlay and stages.
• An otheros.bld provided by Sony is provided on the minimal install-cd. You must use this version of otheros for the new media and stages or you will not be able to boot either.
  2.6.23 has different devices names several devices including disk. The device names for sda are now ps3da. If you are upgrading, be sure to fix fstab and kboot.conf at a minimum.
• I was only able to build 32bit userland GRP. I'm running into a compilation problem for Gnome on 64bit. I will continue to work on it.
• No LiveCD has been built with the new kernel. I'll generate and test this over the course of the next week or so.
• Updated instructions for the install are located at: http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/InstallGentooOnPS3

As always, you can find many of us hanging out on IRC on the #gentoo-ppc64 channel.

Happy Hunting!

Brent