FreeBSD on the Playstation 3

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 08/30/10 08:56, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> A quick status update on the PS3: after some help from Geoff Levand 
> with the memory management hypervisor calls, I now have 
> FreeBSD/powerpc64 booted multi-user!
>
> The port is still in a very rough state, mostly due to lack of 
> drivers: there is no USB yet, no WLAN, no hard drive access, SMP 
> performance is bad due to not properly suspending the non-primary 
> thread, you can't use the SPUs, etc. For those interested in trying it 
> out anyway, sources can be obtained from 
> svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/nwhitehorn/ps3, or I've put a 
> pre-built kernel and loader that can be used for netbooting at 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ps3/. You will need a "fat" PS3 
> with firmware earlier than 3.21.
> -Nathan

Also, many thanks to Peter Grehan for donating to me the playstation 
that made this port possible!
-Nathan