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Re: Debian for PS3?



On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:09:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>   - PS3 kernel support
>       o Although there's now full PS3 support in plain 2.6.24 (except for
> 	wireless), the 2.6.24 kernel images in sid have PS3 support turned off.
> 	Enabling PS3 support should be a matter of changing the existing
> 	powerpc64 config, or adding a new one.

According to the source it needs a different linked kernel.

>       o A modular kernel may need updates to some scripts to make sure all
>         required modules are loaded?

No. udev does this.

>   - Generic Cell support packages:
>       o New packages (already packaged by Ubuntu):
> 	  . ppu-binutils
> 	  . ppu-g++
> 	  . ppu-gcc
> 	  . ppu-gdb
> 	  . ppu-gfortran
> 	  . ppu-gnat

What is ppu?

> 	  . spu-binutils

Merge into binutils, the binary format is rather similar according to my
memory.

> 	  . spu-g++
> 	  . spu-gcc
> 	  . spu-gdb
> 	  . spu-gfortran
> 	  . spu-newlib
> 	  . spu-tools

Well.

> 	  . cell-gcc-testsuite
> 	  . cell-programming-primer
> 	  . cell-sdsk
> 	  . libspe2
> 	  . libspe2-dev
> 	  . libspe2-doc

Whats that?

Bastian

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