Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:11:04 -0400 From: "Eprha Carvajal" <eprha.carvajal@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: New Challenges ( FreeBSD on PS3 ) Message-ID: <df1c3af50612102011o7f9efccbs48e7c55163500705@mail.gmail.com>
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I was wondering if anyone though of installing FreeBSD in a PS3, i'm sure there are some big challanges there. The Hardware seems to be extremely powerful and there is people running different linux flavors on it. There is a lot to be done there, the cell processor will probably require a long term effort, the blue ray device drivers, keyboard and mouse are USB so i don't think that will be a problem for BSD, the video card is designed for the PS3, will NVIDIA provide support as before, not sure. In other words this is a new architecture. Some of the questions i have right now are: Is possible to the Sony/IBM/Toshiba documents for the Cell Processor ? Is there any specific linux patch set for the PS3 ? ( Looks like there is none, will have more info once i try both installs ) What is the approach of LINUX with the cell processor and the 8 cores ? The NVIDIA RSX video Card was designed for the PS3, any chance they will support this ? I'm receiving one next weekend and i was wondering if there is a group of developers thinking on this, i will love to see FreeBSD running in a cell processor. Comments are appreciated. Regards Eprha
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