ken mays wrote:
> The Sony PS3 can be obtained for <=$399 USD and you
> get a nice Blu-ray player tossed in for free. The
> 'free' Blu-Ray player and Nvidia RSX GPU are more than
> worth the price of admission here in the long term and
> as a feasible solution. Both the old and new Mac Mini
> runs about $499 USD and has far less capabilities in
> key areas.
I've mentioned this in the past, but one of the biggest challenges with a port
to PS3, Power6, or any other multi-CPU/multi-core PPC environment is that
Solaris at present assumes a processor with strong memory ordering.
The current PPC work doesn't run into issues because the ODW is single CPU,
single threaded but to go beyond that a fair amount of work would need to be
done to add appropriate memory synchronization instructions to Solaris
(isync/sync/eieio), particularly in the case of DMA transfers.
William Kucharski
