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Re: [XenPPC] Question on CellBE, PS3, etc.

To: Fang Zhe <r.zh.fang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [XenPPC] Question on CellBE, PS3, etc.
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:07:00 -0500
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 21:51 +0800, Fang Zhe wrote:
> I'm wondering if XenPPC can work on Cell BE(As it includes a 970
> compatiable Core), and ...what about PS3? Is it possible? Or anybody
> already working on it?

Cell BE does support the same hypervisor extensions that the 970 does,
so in theory it should be possible to port Xen to it. I wouldn't call
its core "970 compatible" other than in the way all PowerPC cores are
+/- "compatible".

PS3 has its own hypervisor which of course won't let user-supplied code
run in hypervisor mode.

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