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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