From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 14:01:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD9510656AA for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:01:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AF18FC13 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75CBD582C4 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:01:16 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id McdYBU24TJst for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:01:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (unknown [76.210.68.10]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A5D582C3 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:01:16 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4C7BB9AB.4040205@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:01:15 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100727 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML References: <4C7BB89B.1020502@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4C7BB89B.1020502@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the Playstation 3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:01:17 -0000 On 08/30/10 08:56, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > 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 Also, many thanks to Peter Grehan for donating to me the playstation that made this port possible! -Nathan