Interest in Cell architecture SIG

Sat May 31 12:46:30 UTC 2008

On Saturday, 31 May 2008 at 14:34, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> Dear all,
> 	I have mutilated Jakub Jelinek's excellent binutils and gcc packages to
> create binutils-spu and gcc-spu.  Both mutant packages need a
> significant amount of polishing.  However, I'm wondering if others are
> interested in a Fedora tool chain for the Cell processor?  I'm primarily
> interested in the PS3 architecture.
> 	So 
> (a) Are you interested in a Fedora Architecture SIG for Cell who would
> test and maintain a SPU tool chain, and
> (b) Are you interested in taking the route I've taken in constructing a
> tool chain for Fedora (GCC 4.3 based) rather than supporting the IBM
> Cell SDK (GCC 4.1 based)?

FWIW, I have access to an IBM LS20/QS21 machine (4 Cell cores and 2 AMD Opteron
cores) running Fedora 8, so if you want something tested, I can help.

Regards,
R.

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