Brent Baude

There are new PS3 stages, a minimal cd, and a livecd on the Gentoo mirrors. This hopefully brings a close to the firmware upgrade fiasco. Good luck

If you are an avid PS3 Gentoo user, you know now that Sony's latest 2.10 firmware breaks Gentoo and some other Linux distributions as well. There was a small bug in the frame-buffer code that caused this failure. The conspiracy theorists read more into it but I frankly felt like it was a simple code regression.

If you are unlucky enough to have run into this problem and your Gentoo install does not work, I have authored a short document on how to recover your install. Please visit http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/Rescue for this information.

One of the downsides of this issue is that it rendered the media and stages I created just a few days ago completely useless. They are no longer on the mirrors. I'm rebuilding all the media as this is being written. The stages and livecd should be available tomorrow at the latest (the minimal cd referenced in the rescue document was mirrored today).

I'll post when the new media begins to hit the mirrors. As always, if you have questions, come hang out with us on #gentoo-ppc64 on irc.freenode.net. If you have questions about recovering your install, please ask there. If you have suggestions and improvements for the rescue document, please send them to me. Don't you dare write a bugzilla entry!

Although it was tested, I wrote it hastily and my tester is quite the experienced Linux user so we admittedly do not make the best testing subjects.

Happy Holidays.

Brent