FreeBSD on the Playstation 3

[Justin Hibbits]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>wrote:

> 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
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Awesome news, Nathan!  PPC port is getting better by the day!