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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Peter Groer II <petergroerii@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Any hopes for a BSD for the new Cell Chip?
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:37:38PM -0500, Peter Groer II wrote:
> Any hopes for a BSD for the new Cell Chip from Sony/IBM/Toshiba ?

The first step would be a PowerPC 64-bit port.  Once that's done, my
understanding is that the rest is easy, though supporting a traditional
permission and execution model is impractical due to the vast amount of
state that must be context switched.

-- Brooks

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