From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:04:22 -0500 From: Eric Van Hensbergen To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 on the Cell... In-Reply-To: <36111140-8D4D-41B7-BCA2-17659EA08E26@telus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <36111140-8D4D-41B7-BCA2-17659EA08E26@telus.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5d5d8a32-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/24/05, Paul Lalonde wrote: > IBM looks like they are going to open up the Cell architecture: http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/09/news_6127219.html Okay, Sony has basically announced that they will be allowing "hosted" operating systems on top of their "kernel" -- which to me sounds like they are calling their hypervisor "the kernel". Either they are going to release documentation on their hypervisor interface, or it will be apparent in their forthcoming Linux patches -- so I definitely interested in working with folks to make the Plan 9 port happen. In my view, we'd be best served by working on getting Plan 9 on a commerically available ppc64 (or more cost-effectively a ppc64 simulator) preferably on top of a hypervisor architecture (rHype would be the open-source candidate here). More from me in a couple of weeks after IBM makes some external announcements which I can't talk about yet. -eric