On 11/16/05, Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any chance that simulation of the > > IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? > > Although this would be great, I am not sure how easy it is to get a > accurate simulation of this chip. The cell architecture consists of > both a power processor element (PPE) and 8 synergistic processor > elements (SPEs) while the PPE is a conventional microprocessor the > SPEs are far from so > > The point of the cell is to get the PPE to prepare tasks that can be > executed in a parallel distributed manner across all the SPEs and I am > afraid that this scheduling is going to be very hard to implement > correctly - I may however be proven wrong.
Well I must have come out of loop because it seams that there already is some simulation software available - http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8620812400.html - not sure how much of the CELL it actually simulates - the SPEs are after all not needed to boot an OS, so it may just be the PPE which qemu also may have a better shot at emulating. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
