On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 07:35, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:35:08PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 08:04 -0400, Durandal Dokucheyav wrote: >> > I am contacting you guys on behalf of http://gitbrew.org. We have >> > recently released the otherOS++ firmware for the Sony Playstation 3, >> > allowing the install of third-party OSes on the PS3 once again. We >> > currently have Debian-PPC running on otherOS++ with full access to >> > RSX/SPE's, and would like to know if you would like to collaborate >> > with us on an official Debian port. >> >> We wouldn't consider this as a distinct port, as the PS3 will run the >> same powerpc binaries as we already provide. But I assume there is some >> specific hardware support (particularly for the SPEs) that is currently >> lacking from our powerpc port, and help on that would surely be welcome. > > There actually *is* a separate port: > http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort
That's unrelated. It's a pity (and cause of confusion) of having SPE mean both "Signal Processing Extension" (for FreeScale parts) and "Synergistic Processing Element" (for Cell parts), both in a PowerPC context. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=rkbhkjq9bdzkgv9z88zddlar...@mail.gmail.com