From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 04:44:05 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 1A4FE16A417 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:44:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08FD43CA8 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:42:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so1793791nfc for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:44:02 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=eDjHYDQIRMEdG5GahTFa+StzKTV5HbS4lE6vxz4j2hBVKDD5kmpV8dQ48bxavKXGabMm91UzKhFbVLpyxl2zyvwwjSjgy2xngyhI2NmdruGSG4nRoqiNuEdmFiVJcLlY+El8wdbTHRZoFx0tV49QmLhvfoFJXQa/GBo2IfmIgcs= Received: by 10.82.126.5 with SMTP id y5mr262736buc.1165812241924; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.151.10 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:44:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:44:01 -0800 From: "Kip Macy" To: "Eprha Carvajal" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: 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 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 04:44:05 -0000 I'd love to see it happen although I don't think anyone is thinking about it. I saw an article indicating that Sony had put the code for it back in the main linux tree. Working from docs is a lot more fun, this looks like your best bet: http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/9F820A5FFA3ECE8C8725716A0062585F On 12/10/06, Eprha Carvajal wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >