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From: | B. Douglas Hilton |
Subject: | Re: libl4 test cases |
Date: | Wed, 09 Feb 2005 05:03:15 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) |
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Marcus, with all the hubbub about this spiffy new IBM Cell Processor, how do we stand with support on PowerPC architecture. Whipping out my crystal ball, I see the PS/3 as a realistically viable platform for L4/Hurd experimentation. The fixed hardware would somewhat simplify driver issues, and the PowerPC / Cell combinations seems unusually suitable for L4/Hurd. AndCurrently, the test suite only compiles on ia32. Support for other arches can be added. Things like word sizes, endianess, and arch extensions make it necessary I think to "port" the test suite and test it on each platform individually. I don't think it is a big problem.
best of all, a PS/3 should be an affordable commodity for almost everybody.I was browsing the L4Ka site earlier, and they have listed but not linked the PowerPC/64 architecture as being either supported or under development. Assuming that the L4 kernel is made to run on Cell, what are issues and challenges to making L4/Hurd also work?
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