for hardware, it looks to me that the most possible path to go for is from PA Semi, but seems not right now. I would cross my finger on it.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: > > > ken mays wrote: > > > >> The Sony PS3 can be obtained for <=$399 USD and you > >> get a nice Blu-ray player tossed in for free. The > >> 'free' Blu-Ray player and Nvidia RSX GPU are more than > >> worth the price of admission here in the long term and > >> as a feasible solution. Both the old and new Mac Mini > >> runs about $499 USD and has far less capabilities in > >> key areas. > > > > I've mentioned this in the past, but one of the biggest challenges with a > > port > > to PS3, Power6, or any other multi-CPU/multi-core PPC environment is that > > Solaris at present assumes a processor with strong memory ordering. > > > > The current PPC work doesn't run into issues because the ODW is single CPU, > > single threaded but to go beyond that a fair amount of work would need to > be > > done to add appropriate memory synchronization instructions to Solaris > > (isync/sync/eieio), particularly in the case of DMA transfers. > > Sequential consistency and instruction order issues across threads is very > non-trivial. > > Millions of dollars of R&D required. > > Dennis Clarke > > > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >
