[Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Dave Feustel
Is there any chance that simulation of the IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? Thanks, Dave Feustel -- Switch to Secure OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!! NOW with Virtual PC OS support via QEMU and Beowulf clustering using PETSc and MPICH2! ___

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Lars Roland
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Dave Feustel
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Ozan Türkyılmaz
On 16/11/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:42, Paul Brook wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:10, Lars Roland wrote: On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any chance that simulation of the IBM Cell processor will be

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Brook
Slightly off topic, but AMD has just announced its intention to ship a 4-core Opteron chip in 2007. The 4-core chip will use AMD's upcoming m2 socket. isn't writing a OS for dual (or n) core chips hell ? It's no different to any other SMP system, and most serious OS have been doing that

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:00, Ozan Türkyılmaz wrote: isn't writing a OS for dual (or n) core chips hell ? It may be Hell, but it's already done for most, if not all the BSD and *nix operating systems now. Ditto for 64-bit x86 mode. -- Switch to Secure OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!! NOW