Rob G Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I Really Want To Get OS X on The PS3. I Know Driver Problems Will Pop up but we can handle them. We Did it with osx86. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thespottedelf Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 i'm curious what would be the main reason to want it? is it just for the sake of messing around with it? From what i've heard the proccesor is far from roboust... is it just the hdmi and blueray? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 I want it beacause if you can run linux on your ps3 you should be able to run os x, It would be nice to have that in the living room, For The Blu Ray Play back and the ability to Play iTunes on the tv with out apple tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 The darwin sources are opensource, so just start to compile those. Then you should just program the gui. Simple, tell me when you're finished... oh wait, you didn't meant that you should do it? By we you meant that someone should do it for you??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espionage724 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 From what I heard it is possible to isntall Mac OS X on a PS3 but it would indeed take some work. Just wondering but what kind of processor does the PS3 have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Considering that access to hardware acceleration of the RSX is just in infancy with Linux on PS3, even if you got OS X running it would probably be without CI and QE. (so not so pleasant.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 So Headrush you dont think OS X on PS3 would be worth the work. I think it would be cool to be able to watch itunes Download movies and tv shows on your tv without apple tv. SuperHai, I dont mean every one do it for me I Have been trying I cant get Any disk to boot on the PS3. Im just looking for help. From what I heard it is possible to install Mac OS X on a PS3 but it would indeed take some work. Just wondering but what kind of processor does the PS3 have?Here Is What Wiki Says About The PS3s Processor The PS3 uses the Cell microprocessor, which is made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and six accessible Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). A seventh runs in a special mode and is dedicated to aspects of the OS and security, and an eighth is disabled to improve production yields. The floating point performance of the whole system (CPU + GPU) is reported to be 2 TFLOPS.[1] PlayStation 3's Cell CPU achieves 204 GFLOPS single precision float and 15 GFLOPS double precision. The PS3 has 256 MB of Rambus XDR DRAM, clocked at CPU die speed. As of firmware update 2.0101478, 32 MB of the XDR memory is reserved by the PS3's XrossMediaBar user interface. To install Any other OS On the PS3 you Need to first install the boot-loader and thats where I am having problems. And as far as i can tell the PS3s CPU is considered a powerPC so this is going to be difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 OS X can be run on the Cell processor, IBM demoed it when they were first showing off the power of the Cell chip before the PS3 was even out... there's a video of it somewhere on Google Video or YouTube out there.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 So Headrush you dont think OS X on PS3 would be worth the work. Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 I still want to do it, Just to say its been done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rufus T. Firefly Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 The darwin sources are opensource, so just start to compile those. Then you should just program the gui. Simple, tell me when you're finished... oh wait, you didn't meant that you should do it? By we you meant that someone should do it for you??? Oh snap! but I do agree with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 I Got Linux to run OS X in emulation but its slower than cold tar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Maybe you should get your Intel82566DC network card working first! and your SLEEP and SHUTDOWN function on your current system. SticMAN I Got Linux to run OS X in emulation but its slower than cold tar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylamrin Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Maybe you should get your Intel82566DC network card working first!and your SLEEP and SHUTDOWN function on your current system. SticMAN richtig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacRetail Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 The PS3 uses a PowerPC-processor. I believe you might be able to install OS X using Mac-on-Linux (MoL) on Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 The only thing that I would not like about it, is the PS3 only has a limited amount of memory. Fast as hell, but very limited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 I can get it to boot off any of the os x disk retail or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The iMan Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 u can? how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob G Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Sorry Typo. I cant* get it to boot off of any dvds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinkster Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 How about an OSx86 version of Tiger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netkas Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 cell has PPC with altivec, enough for osx, but ps3 has hypervisor which makes thigns harder, if smbd wanna port linux-ps3 patches to darwin kernel - u r welcome, then need to write bootloader to boot kernel on ps3 , then start working on drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stlava Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 AKA it's not going to happen.. We are basically stuck with linux on the ps3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebulOSX Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 How about an OSx86 version of Tiger? um.. the ps3 is PPC, not intel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 The cell really isn't PPC architecture, IBM just calls everything PPC. The 360 would have a better chance doing it, seeing the cpu in the 360 matches ppc arch used in older macs way more than the cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Watz0n Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 The cell really isn't PPC architecture, IBM just calls everything PPC. The 360 would have a better chance doing it, seeing the cpu in the 360 matches ppc arch used in older macs way more than the cell. True. Bill Gates said that himself . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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