Fedora 9 Cell processor packages

[Benjamin Kosnik]

>       * binutils for the SPU
>         (http://foss.it.brighton.ac.uk/~balor/rpm/binutils-spu-2.18.50.0.6-1.src.rpm),
>       * gcc for the SPU,
>       * libspe2 in order to control the SPUs
>         (http://foss.it.brighton.ac.uk/~balor/rpm/libspe2-2.2.80-121.src.rpm),
>       * newlib for the SPU, and
>       * gallium3d using the toolchain developed in the previous
>         packages.
> 
> My libspe2 package is based on the IBM package but recompiled for
> Fedora 9, the binutils package is based on the binutils in Fedora 9.
> Both of these packages are complete. I’m currently arguing with GCC.

What are the details of this argument? I thought that 4.3.x natively
supported cell/SPU. What problems are you running into? 

Perhaps an additional item or place to start on this might be a
cross-compilation package for x86 to SPU. 

-benjamin