[Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3

[Peter De Jager]

Thank you, that is what I was trying to find out. Sony is marketing PS3 as
supporting Linux, if anything it will be good for them if more people buy
it, and the ability to run Linux (and run it well) will not diminish their
market share in any way, so I don't see Sony blocking any effort, or lack of
documentation being a problem. As far as "...and someone is willing to
invest the time", will this be a significant effort? I don't know how
different the cell architecture is from the (Mac) PowerPC on which Mono is
currently running. I can imagine that it won't be a simple recompile ;-) but
how big a port will it be, or is not enough known about the cell processor
at this stage?

Pete. 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Waite [mailto:dwaite at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 23:00
To: Peter De Jager
Cc: Mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3

I believe the correct response to this question is "I cannot invision what,
if anything, will preclude mono from being adapted to run on the playstation
3". IE, if Sony does not block work, if adequate processor and system
documentation is available, and someone is willing to invest the time, it
will most probably happen.

-David Waite

On 6/24/05, Peter De Jager <peterdj at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Well, I won't quite say "orders of magnitude". In floating point Xbox 
> 360 provides (approx.) 1 teraflops while PS3 does 1.8. The cell 
> processor does have multiple cores, but so does the PPC in Xbox. They 
> should both be fantastic platforms but my pref would also be with PS3 
> ;-) and I don't see MS enabling Linux on Xbox anyway.
> 
> Still, with Linux running on PS3, my question is whether Mono will run
too.
> 
> Pete.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Harry 
> Holt
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 22:07
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> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Harry Holt <harryholt at gmail.com>
> Date: Jun 24, 2005 1:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mono-devel-list] Will Mono run on Playstation 3
> To: Bram Westerbaan <bram.westerbaan at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> But I *do* want to use a PS3, because it will have *cell* processors, 
> which should bring cooperative computing to a whole new level.  You 
> can send off threads for processing to the SPUs for processing, and 
> even utilize SPUs on other networked processors for ad-hoc distributed
processing.
> 
> I don't know what you mean about the Xbox2 being "just as fast".  The
> PS3 should be orders of magnitude faster, given some careful 
> consideration to OS optimization.
> 
> ... HH
> 
> On 6/24/05, Bram Westerbaan <bram.westerbaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/24/05, Peter De Jager <peterdj at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Is the Playstation 3 architecture (Power PC) similar enough to 
> > > current Mac
> > CPU's to allow Mono to run on PS3? With 2 teraflops (!) and sony 
> > announcing support for Linux, it will be great to be able to run 
> > Mono on a supercomputer :-)
> > >
> > > Are there any plans for Mono on PS3?
> >
> >  Hi,
> >  I do not know how it should be done. But I do know you don't want 
> > to use a
> > PS3 when the Xbox 2 will have about the same speed but will run on 
> > MSIL processors :|. I really hope there will be a linux .net one day.
> >
> >
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