Cell - linux compatibility question

Cell - linux compatibility question

[Donald Chiarulli]

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.

Don Chiarulli
Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh

Re: Cell - linux compatibility question

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 11:27 -0400, 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?

There should be no orting required. It should just work.

> Any predictions on the relative difficulty?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any input you may be able to provide.
> 
> Don Chiarulli
> Computer Science
> University of Pittsburgh
> 
> 
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Re: Cell - linux compatibility question

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 11:27 -0400, Donald Chiarulli wrote:
> Do you know anyone who has experience with porting the Cell GNU  
> toolchain to this platform?

We're hoping to get the Cell toolchain into Fedora Extras some time
soon, so you won't need to do anything special to find and install it.
In the meantime, it shouldn't be a problem -- I think it's normally
built on Fedora anyway.

-- 
dwmw2

Re: Cell - linux compatibility question

[jschopp]

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/