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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:55:03 -0800
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New Challenges ( FreeBSD on PS3 )
Message-ID:  <457D9B77.1090106@freebsd.org>

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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 main Cell CPU, the PPE, looks like a slow G5.

  Linux runs under the control of a hypervisor. You can't run direct on 
bare metal.

  For FreeBSD, the challenge would be to get the loader running, and get 
the kernel to use hypervisor calls for all the low-level operations.

later,

Peter.



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