From: jschopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
To: Donald Chiarulli <don@cs.pitt.edu>
Cc: linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, cell_support@bsc.es,
Steve Levitan <steve@engr.pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: Cell - linux compatibility question
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:33:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <450DCD36.2020606@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5619A22F-A50E-4FE1-B48B-B7AEE5481542@cs.pitt.edu>
Donald Chiarulli wrote:
> Hello folks..
>
> We are about to order a 1U dual cell server from Mercury Computer, see:
>
> http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=96&type=boards
>
> They are offering a linux (yellow dog) from terra-soft on this
> platform based on the 2.6.14-1 kernel. I understand that your kernel
> (I assume that it is fedora core 5) is built for the blade board that
> you show on your website.
>
> Do you know anyone who has experience with porting the Cell GNU
> toolchain to this platform?
>
> Any predictions on the relative difficulty?
>
> Thanks in advance for any input you may be able to provide.
Any powerpc toolchain will work out of the box. The SPU toolchain isn't mainline fsf yet,
but I assume terra-soft bundles the SPU gnu toolchain as well. If not you can get it here:
http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-17 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-08 15:27 Cell - linux compatibility question Donald Chiarulli
2006-09-08 21:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-09 6:27 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-17 22:33 ` jschopp [this message]
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