From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 04:11:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19C716A415 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:11:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eprha.carvajal@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2861943C9E for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:09:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eprha.carvajal@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1345339wxc for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:11:04 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=kyclUkzBcZ80M+aU77Z/YD5rc+LQN1WOcQuaMn6+V9RwX3wK0axi8Q4uDaWNODI3c1z45yk8ZGYHWwas1qsoB9zukTx6bA9h2Glt/f5ktCgYUrkfL5c65maShetwjNSrDIy1/DjQsLpJ1VbpHPz6P/la0KiYD6UpXTHXGh1/5Qw= Received: by 10.70.125.11 with SMTP id x11mr11513915wxc.1165810264284; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:11:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.7.9 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:11:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:11:04 -0400 From: "Eprha Carvajal" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: New Challenges ( FreeBSD on PS3 ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:11:06 -0000 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