On Wednesday 16 November 2005 08:26, Lars Roland wrote: > 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. > My impression is that the IBM software is binary only. If that's true, I am not likely to be able to run it on OpenBSD. OpenBSD has a Linux emulation mode, but I don't use it because of my concerns about security. I think the sw development tools used are modified GNU tools(GCC, etc). I would expect those to be available as source.
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