Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:28:08 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Peter Groer II <petergroerii@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any hopes for a BSD for the new Cell Chip? Message-ID: <20070105142808.GA48496@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <000501c73083$40ef44a0$c2cdcde0$@com> References: <000501c73083$40ef44a0$c2cdcde0$@com>
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--n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFnmB3XY6L6fI4GtQRAiZMAJ9WbNEudbcxwQDn6O+ntfniko9JIQCfe63c WOSja/VqU0docuZD7GTuL78= =NlRc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--
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