it is well known that Cell and XBox CPU are all powerpc ISA. Cell is gaining popularity in not only the gaming computing, but in others, such as the coming road-runner, a hybrid opteron-cell supercomputer; terra soft is building the first cell-based supercomputer, IBM is selling cell blade and workstation and mercury already has cell board about one year ago. also tons of documents available from IBM web, including both SDK and full-system cell simulator.
it is suprising that here are left far behind what happens outside of solaris. it is not good sign. OS research is mostly driven by hardware architecture, Cell seems represents the trends of future microprocessor (CPU+GPU on a chip) architecutre, also see what AMD is doing in fusion and Torrenza. before a powerpc solaris port is available, it does not make sense doing cell port at all, which will start powerpc port anyway. Noah On 11/15/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ken mays wrote: >> OpenSolaris for Sony Playstation 3 >> >> This makes for an interesting OpenSolaris project for several reasons: >> >> 1. Stable hardware platform >> 2. Simplied device driver support >> 3. Modern features (Blu-Ray, Cell processor, Nvidia GPU, HDMI/HDTV, >> Bluetooth, 20GB HD, Networking) >> 4. Global distribution >> 5. Very Large developer community >> 6. Large financial backing >> >> An OpenSolaris project built around Sony Playstation 3 allows use of the >> advanced sound and powerful graphics capabilties - and well as a portable >> multi-purpose platform. >> >> Something to think about, > > Is this actually a proposal to port to the PS3 hardware ? > Are you intending to lead that project ? I think it may just be enthusiasm run rampant. Which is perfectly cool. The cell processor has not even seen the light of day yet and I doubt that there is a pile of documentation available on it in any case. Yes it looks very fast and it is a very good thing that someone wakes up in the morning and looks at it and says "we have to get OpenSolaris ported to that puppy!". Great enthusiasm. Just think what the other extreme could be eh ? -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
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