New Challenges ( FreeBSD on PS3 )

[Peter Grehan]

 >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.