PS3 Hardware Acceleration for RSX GPU in OtherOS++ (PS3 Linux)

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    In 2018 we have already seen so much progress on the PlayStation 3 with a variety of new exploits and hacks that have opened many new avenues for people to join the homebrew community. However, the community developer's still are not done making new breakthroughs on the platform. One roadblock has remained on the PS3 and that was Hardware Acceleration on the NVIDIA RSX GPU, while we have seen the PS Vita / PSTV get HW Acceleration recently and how its has helped many projects on the platform. the PPC / CELL environment of the PS3 offers a challenging adventure with the architecture that the PS3 is built on, that sadly not many have been able to undertake and solve over the years, however that may of just changed.......​

    Developer RenéRebe has made some great progress on the PS3 in OtherOS++ (PS3 Linux), He produced a video on YouTube detailing the technical side of this breakthrough for PS3 Linux (OtherOS++) that Hopefully (my personal hope) can benefit GameOS one day as well so that we can improve the overall homebrew landscape as well like perhaps finally the inclusion of an N64 emulator(?) or Improved 3d emulation in general, we know the hardware (if emu contains a PPC port) can do it, point to the internal emulators of PS2 / PSP / PS1 emulation to gauge the capabilities of emulation on the HW.
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    -STLcardsWS​


    RSX_'Reality_Synthesizer'.jpg ​

    • PS3/Linux NVidia RSX HW Acceleration​

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      My summary of three nights of debugging to get PS3/Linux hardware accelerated X working again. It is finally up and running; in OtherOS++ with full access to the NVdia RSX GPU​

      Update: Also the developer posted this video a few days prior to the one above​

      Running PS3 PPC64 Linux in GameOS w/ FULL ACCESS RIGHTS!

      The first steps on the way to make PS3 Linux great again, and run it with full GameOS rights! ​

     
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    gercapo, Apr 27, 2018
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  • ferrox2017_2.png 4.85 FERROX (COBRA v8.20) CFW by Alexander
    The PS3 4.85 CFW landscape is gathering some familiar names after a bit of a slow start after the 4.85 OFW Update, We seen Rebug Lite released last week, Now we have cfw developer @Alexander releasing 4.85 FERROX (COBRA v8.20) Custom Firmware for the PS3 (for models capable of cfw installs). This is an updated version of Alexander's FERROX brand containing all the usual's like XMB MOD installer for extra features like the CyberModding Homebrew Store, while updating to 4.85 and also the latest cobra version 8.20 that debuted on Rebug 4.85 Lite. Checkout the latest details of this release from Cybermodding's @LizZo below​
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  • Rebug-1.png 4.85.1 REBUG LITE CFW with new COBRA v8.2 Released
    Developer Joonie of Team Rebug has announced today the latest cfw release (following 4.84.2 rex) of the REBUG brand. This is not the iconic REX flavor of PS3 Custom Firmware, which is a hybrid of dex/cex, In order for the creation of REX, the team is dependent and still in search for file's needed for the creation of REX (4.85 DEX PUP). However, they have the LITE version (a CEX based Cobra CFW) ready to go for 4.85 user's seeking a new 4.85 CFW. This is a welcomed update from Team Rebug as the 4.85 PS3 CFW landscape has been a bit light in choices (for 4.85). So having the developer's with one of the best name's in Custom,Firmware development is great to see now as an available option. Also, they have updated the Cobra payload to now version 8.2 & also the Rebug Toolbox has been updated (toolbox addon requires installation in "install package files" pkg is waiting for you there after installing REBUG) You can checkout all the feature's/patche's in the provided list below for this PlayStation 3 Custom FirmWare and then checkout full details/documentation of the release at rebug.me the official website (direct link found at bottom of article).​
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  • multiMAN_4.81_CFW_deank.jpg [Update] multiMAN 04.85.01 - Official Update from deank adds 4.83-4.85 CFW Support + PS3HEN Support
    UPDATE 04.85.01 - Improved PS3HEN Support Added

    Original: Appears that developer @deank has pushed an official update for the popular PS3 Homebrew known as multiMAN (or mM). We have not seen an official update since firmware 4.82 (albeit from some unofficial modified version, that were not ideal), there was not much of a need for an update since the previous official update of 4.82 worked fine as is on 4.83 /4.84 / 4.85. In that time Sony's changes in 4.8x era of firmware were minimal and presented little changes for the PS3. The only thing that was missing was firmware detection of 4.83 and greater, as it was impossible for the application to know the offsets of future firmware's. However, deank quietly pushed an update via the applications online update. This new update provides official support for CFW 4.83 - 4.85 which will recognize and properly fix the cosmetic issue and display the new firmware presents.

    Other then that its the same old classic multiMAN, which is not a bad thing as this was and still is an iconic applications for the PS3. This powerful Homebrew is packed with tons of functionality for your cfw enabled PS3, Regarding support for PS3HEN user's I am not sure as of writing this if this version supports PS3HEN fully, (see 04.85.01 update) nothing is mentioned so we should not assume. On brewology there is an unofficial multiMAN 4.84 PS3HEN version (* in previous releases), but not sure how compatible many of the feature are (maybe we could have user's comment below with some feedback regarding ps3hen) PS3HEN user's in general should also realize that many PS3 Homebrew apps were created with CFW in mind. so there can be compatibility issue with some features..Note that ManaGunZ is supporting PS3HEN w/ a special PS3HEN mode that will disable the CFW features.    ​
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Discussion in 'PS3 News' started by gercapo, Apr 27, 2018.

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    1. sandungas
      sandungas
      Wooooho, its happening ?
      sandungas, Apr 27, 2018
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      ZeroOne, STLcardsWS, Amran Azfawana and 1 other person like this.
    2. sandungas
      sandungas
      I been watching some videos in his youtube channel and this is really promising
      In short, he started rewriting the RSX driver (not sure which one though) and he got acceleration working, but he made a pause in his work because he was at a point where is needed to cleanup all the code tweaks and get some chunks of code from nvidia sources and he also wanted to spend some time reading and understanding how the PS3 RSX works in detail (to have a better overview of which road to take when writing a public version of the driver)

      That happened a couple of months ago, and if you look at his youtube channel you are going to realize he is very busy doing other things
      His youtube channel is awesome, lol, he is very experienced in hardware, in software, in linux kernel development, he even has a "thing" named T2 (used to build linux distros like puppy, i love this one btw, i always though a puppy working in PS3 could be nice)

      No doubt... it looks he is skilled enought to make the RSX accelerated driver... lets hope he keeps the interest in it
      [​IMG]

      Keep an eye at this links, eventually he could upload something new related with PS3 :)
      https://twitter.com/renebln
      https://rene.rebe.de/
      https://www.youtube.com/user/renerebe/videos
      sandungas, Apr 28, 2018
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      LuanTeles, ZeroOne, Fearfr3 and 2 others like this.
    3. DeViL303
      DeViL303
      Yeah, very interesting channel, Maybe an article about him and the driver progress would be good on here, get him some subscribers and support. Even my shitty youtube channel where I never said a word has more subscribers and he is at it since 2008, just needs some publicity and it might motivate him even more.

      I see he said this only 2 weeks ago too on another video. So still active.
      DeViL303, Apr 28, 2018
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      LuanTeles, Zar, STLcardsWS and 1 other person like this.
    4. sandungas
      sandungas
      Thats exactly what i was thinking, we need to show him our support ;)
      Yesterday i added his videos and links to wiki http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Talk:PS3_GPU_Driver
      But we need moar... i was about to tell to @STLcards that we need an article in the forum frontpage about this

      At this point of the PS3 scene lifetime... it looks like he is the only one (in the world ? lol) that can complete the work


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      And btw... im guessing after having acceleration working... there is going to be still a long road to have acceleration working in gameOS
      But if done... i guess is going to be posible to have vulkan working in retroarch... and vulkan = n64 emu working and some more
      sandungas, Apr 28, 2018
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    5. DeViL303
      DeViL303
      Also I see him saying he is having trouble with finding old files, do you know anyone who might have stuff like that? Someone must have a copies, I was just going through one of my old drives and I have tonnes of stuff from 2010, payloads, Rebug 3.41 betas etc. Nothing like that though.
      DeViL303, Apr 28, 2018
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    6. sandungas
      sandungas
      Well, thats one of the doubts i had, not sure what he is using as a base... but anyway i guess is built on top of the work from glevand/graf so was the repositories of gitbrew, but later glevand submitted his drivers and stuff to the official linux kernel, and the most experimental work made by glevand was made for freeBSD
      I never was much into all that so im not sure what happened with all that files, maybe are this ones
      │ ├── ps3freebsd-ps3gpu-master.tar.gz
      │ ├── ps3freebsd-ps3gpu_test-master.tar.gz
      http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Gitorious
      http://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/Gitbrew
      sandungas, Apr 28, 2018
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    7. lord3490
      lord3490
      That would be awesome, i hope n64 emulation will be possible on the ps3 one day :cool:
      lord3490, Apr 28, 2018
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      djluiluv and Spawn like this.
    8. DEX357
      DEX357
      This has always been missing for PS3, I see a bright future for PS3 with graphics acceleration :D if he makes his work knows many things will be possible.
      DEX357, Apr 28, 2018
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    9. lord3490
      lord3490
      Steam & games comes to my mind.
      Though the ps3s hardware is way older then my PC.. But still, it would be nice :D
      lord3490, Apr 28, 2018
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    10. sandungas
      sandungas
      Look at this, he is involved with this "T2 building enviroment" i was talking about
      http://t2sde.org/hardware/console/Sony/PS3/

      Not sure if is involved directly or indirectly because i found that link yesterday while rushing google looking for info about his work... maybe is not and i clicked in it instantly because i knew about T2 before so it called my attention inmediatly
      T2 is used (or was used, not sure if they has moved to other build enviroment) to make linux distros like this one:
      http://puppylinux.com/

      Are very small and very efficient (thanks to the T2), and i guess is posible to make one specific for PS3
      Something like that (and with video acceleration) should beat in performance any other linux running in PS3 by a lot ;)
      Ok... im dreaming... but it looks like this guy can do it
      sandungas, Apr 28, 2018
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    11. DEX357
      DEX357
      A real fall of the jaw would cause the possibility louching Dolphin or nullDC oh dreaming Shenmue, PS3 would be a mega multimedia harvester and a new leader for console emulators.
      DEX357, Apr 28, 2018
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    12. sandungas
      sandungas
      sandungas, Apr 28, 2018
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      esc0rtd3w, Spawn, STLcardsWS and 2 others like this.
    13. STLcardsWS
      STLcardsWS
      WoW this is great news

      @gercapo
      I edited your post for news reasons and promoted this thread . Thanks for the alert.
      This was released back in late jan but alot was going on in the scene and looks to of been overlooked but this is a legit person so thanks for make everyone aware :) .
      STLcardsWS, Apr 28, 2018
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      gercapo, jacobsson, DeViL303 and 4 others like this.
    14. Naked_Snake1995
      Naked_Snake1995
      So can i finally can use the Cell and the RSX for some Design editing!? Because my Xeon workstation its kicking the bucket :D

      Great job non the less ;)
      Naked_Snake1995, Apr 28, 2018
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    15. EddieEddie90
      EddieEddie90
      So, what does this mean? I'm sorry if it's a noob question.
      EddieEddie90, Apr 28, 2018
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    16. DEX357
      DEX357
      Answer for noob, it means that the majority of eg advanced emulators require support for 3D acceleration, large profits in this connection. Option to rewrite emulators from other palformorms for ps3 gameos. One of the examples. A large research field, e.g. for full PSP compatibility, rewriting the PPSSPP emulator. Support for the driver for RSX beautiful case, RSX is a comparable power to the Nvidia 7800GTX on which you can emulate up to the 6th generation of consoles. It would not surprise me to launch Wii on PS3 :P
      Last edited: Apr 28, 2018
      DEX357, Apr 28, 2018
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      jacobsson, esc0rtd3w, EddieEddie90 and 1 other person like this.
    17. esc0rtd3w
      esc0rtd3w
      this is one area i never got to explore too much yet. great work! this will be exciting to see what it can provide in the future :D
      esc0rtd3w, Apr 28, 2018
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    18. Kyan_dudl
      Kyan_dudl
      Wow, these are very interesting... bless great developers. I'm thrilled.
      Kyan_dudl, Apr 28, 2018
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    19. EddieEddie90
      EddieEddie90
      That sounds insanely awesome, though, I would only use it for PSP emulation...

      I hope we see a release soon :0
      EddieEddie90, Apr 28, 2018
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