Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Jan 2007 20:54 UTC, submitted by anonymous
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NetBSD
by ghen on Mon 8th Jan 2007 21:15 UTC
ghen
Member since:
2005-08-31

FWIW, NetBSD is being ported to the PS3 as well.

Here's the (ultra-short) dmesg:
http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/ml/port-powerpc-ja/200612/msg00004.h...

and a "screenshot" of NetBSD/ps3 going multi-user mode:
http://nandra.segv.jp/NetBSD/PS3.jpg

RE: NetBSD
by somebody on Tue 9th Jan 2007 09:22 in reply to "NetBSD"
somebody Member since:
2005-07-07

total memory = 128 MB
avail memory = 115 MB
bus 80 MHz
cpu 3192 MHz


??? My best guess is they have to fix something (:if not anything, access to whole 256MB would be appreciated:) But, hail to the hackers working on this one.

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