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Subject: Re: Cell port
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Hi Décio,

> Has FreeBSD been ported to the Cell processor?

  Not to my knowledge.

> If not, is a project under way?

  None that I've heard.

> I'm very interested in running FreeBSD on my Playstation 3 
> and am willing to contribute to such an effort.

  Me too. I have a PS3 that can dual-boot Linux and wished I had some 
spare time to get FreeBSD going.

later,

Peter.