powerpc/powerpcspe has landed

Justin Hibbits chmeeedalf at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 16:15:01 UTC 2016


Hi,
No, this is for the embedded SoCs from NXP/Freescale using cores with the
Signal Processing Engine (a DSP-like FPU), particularly the e500v2 core.
The SPEs in the cell are a different architecture.

-Justin

On Oct 26, 2016 11:08, "Kiryanov Vassily" <kvas at bf.pstu.ru> wrote:

> Hello Justin,
>
> Sorry for my incompetence but is this architecture includes IBM Cell
> (2xPPE + 8xSPE) or my PS3 will not boot such kernels? Googling could
> not resolve my doubts.
>
> Sunday, October 23, 2016, 4:06:37 AM, you wrote:
>
> JH> Hi folks,
>
> JH> Last night, with a couple commits today to tidy up, I landed a new
> JH> MACHINE_ARCH, of powerpcspe, into head.  It's been tested on my RB800
> JH> and an AmigaOne A1222 (P1022-based board).  Currently there's no
> JH> support for ports (some things might work, but lang/gcc most certainly
> JH> will *not* yet).
>
> JH> Happy hacking and testing.
>
> JH> - Justin
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>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Kiryanov                            mailto:kvas at bf.pstu.ru
>
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