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From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
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Subject: FreeBSD on the Playstation 3
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A quick status update on the PS3: after some help from Geoff Levand with 
the memory management hypervisor calls, I now have FreeBSD/powerpc64 
booted multi-user!

The port is still in a very rough state, mostly due to lack of drivers: 
there is no USB yet, no WLAN, no hard drive access, SMP performance is 
bad due to not properly suspending the non-primary thread, you can't use 
the SPUs, etc. For those interested in trying it out anyway, sources can 
be obtained from svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/nwhitehorn/ps3, or I've 
put a pre-built kernel and loader that can be used for netbooting at 
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ps3/. You will need a "fat" PS3 
with firmware earlier than 3.21.
-Nathan