Re: New Challenges ( FreeBSD on PS3 )

From: Peter Grehan <grehan_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:55:03 -0800
 >I was wondering if anyone though of installing
 >FreeBSD in a PS3, i'm sure there are some big
 >challanges there.

  The main Cell CPU, the PPE, looks like a slow G5.

  Linux runs under the control of a hypervisor. You can't run direct on 
bare metal.

  For FreeBSD, the challenge would be to get the loader running, and get 
the kernel to use hypervisor calls for all the low-level operations.

later,

Peter.
Received on Mon Dec 11 2006 - 17:22:34 UTC

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