On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... will FreeBSD.org consider porting FreeBSD to Sony
Playstation3?
... NetBSD works like a charm on Sony Playstation2
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/playstation2/.
and my guess will be that NetBSD 4.0 which is supposed to
be released about the same time as FreeBSD 7.0 will work
on Playstation3.
The IBM Cell processor in the PS3 is unique beast, similar in many
ways to a PPC970 but with enough subtle (and some not-so-subtle)
differences that the port would likely need to be overseen by
someone familiar with such undertakings. This is not to predict
that NetBSD 4.0 will or won't support it -- that could reasonably
be asked on a NetBSD list -- but be aware that it may turn out to
be a bigger job than one might initially expect.
Also don't forget, since it is a multiprocessor system, there's the
difference between booting the OS and userland and taking full
advantage of the hardware.
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