Legacy content

This page contains content that has been added for preservation's sake, even though most of you aren't ever going to use any of this stuff.

WARNING

As this is legacy content, if you use any of these don't expect people to be able to help you.

Legacy kernels, distros and initramfses

In all honesty: most of these can be found on the PS4Linux.com website, as it hasn't been updated in a long time. Don't use these on modern distros, as they don't boot anymore.

Kernels

Other kernels

These are additional kernels that are kind of up to date but also not really or that do not offer prebuilts, which aren't useful for 99% of people.

Kernel version	Source and download	Compatible Southbridges	Extra info
6.15.y	GitHub	All, depends on the branch	No precompiled downloads available.

Kernels to avoid

This list contains kernels that you should be avoiding, with all due respect.

Kernel version	Source and download	Compatible Southbridges	Extra info
6.15, 5.15 and 5.4	All	N/A	FullLTO, 120Hz support, 4K for PS4 Pro. You need to download the whole archive and pick one for your needs. By saya.
6.15.4	Aeolia & Belize	N/A?	ZRAM, CachyOS patches, KVM and more. By triki1.
4.4 5.x	Probably no source. Download.	All	The old list from PS4Linux.

Credits for the kernels can be found here.

Bootargs

The bootargs.txt is not really necessary anymore, unless your "distro + kernel" combo of choice requires it or on certain kernels for Baikal PS4s. Therefore, it has been moved to the legacy section.

This adds certain parameters when launching the kernel to make the GPU work properly.

In order to use it, create a new text file, and input this line inside, then save it as bootargs.txt:

panic=0 clocksource=tsc consoleblank=0 net.ifnames=0 radeon.dpm=0 amdgpu.dpm=0 drm.debug=0 console=uart8250,mmio32,0xd0340000 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 drm.edid_firmware=edid/1920x1080.bin

Remember that this bootargs.txt needs to be placed in the same folder as the bzImage.

Distro

Distros made by other members of the PS4 community that we cannot trust anymore are moved here. They also haven't really been updated in a long time as far as I'm aware.

Distro	Compatible Southbridge & Mesa	Port credits	Info
CachyOS	All (Mesa 25.1.0)	Elokuba (Qba)	"Final Fantasy v2" version. It has nothing to do with FF. Mere fantasy.
EndeavourOS	All? (Mesa Version ?)	Elokuba (Qba)	Arch based distro that's nice to use and easy to maintain
Manjaro	All? (Mesa Version ?)	Elokuba (Qba)	A Manjaro KDE distro
Garuda	All? (Mesa Version ?)	Elokuba (Qba)	"Gaming focused" distro (not really)
Fedora 42	Aeolia, Belize (Mesa 26)	Elokuba (Qba)	Normal Fedora running KDE on Wayland
Debian Forky	Aeolia, Belize (Mesa 25.3+)	triki1	Very new distro. Extremely bleeding edge.
Kali Linux	All (Mesa 25.0.3-devel+)	triki1	Based on Debian Forky, but with Kali Linux stuff included
Debian Trixie	Aeolia, Belize (Mesa 25.2.0-devel+)	triki1	Latest Debian
Xubuntu	All (Mesa 25.0.5)	triki1	Divided into multiple files
Batocera 40	All (Mesa 22.1.7)	Noob404	For retrogaming

If you are looking for really old distros, check out the downloads from PS4Linux here.

Initramfs

Old downloads from PS4Linux can be found here.

Other

Honestly, it's all on the same page as above. Here you go.

Legacy configs

More stuff may be moved to here in the future.

VRAM configs

The vram.txt is a file contaning a number, which is your VRAM allocation amount. You may still be able to use this, but to avoid confusion, it has been moved to the legacy section, as you can just as easily reboot the console and change the payload.

You can create this file yourself. Create an empty text file called vram.txt, and in it, input a number between 1 and 3. That's how many GBs will be allocated to your GPU. Remember you are removing that from your system memory!

Updates

Arch-based distros (legacy)

To make sure that the PS4 packages don't get updated, you need to modify the pacman config:

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

Then, in the [Options] section, add this:

IgnorePkg = lib32-libdrm-git lib32-mesa-git libdrm-git mesa-git lib32-libdrm lib32-mesa libdrm mesa lib32-llvm-libs llvm-libs
IgnoreGroup = mesa

Then, you should be free to update your system with:

sudo pacman -S