I'm not sure, but I think the two you are talking about are not SPUs, these are the virtual cores of the PPE. I read that the PPE has a virtual dual core like Intels hyperthreading. I suppose that the system monitor isn't specialised for the CELL CPU and does not know about the SPUs.
If you boot your YDL you see 6 icons below the two YDL logos. IMHO the 2 dogs represent the two virtual cores of the CELLs PPE and the icons represent the 6 SPE/SPUs. This makes me think you can use the SPUs in your programs to optimize them to improve their performance. There must be a pseudo filesystem mounted to access the SPUs have a look at your "/". Haven Sole schrieb: > well 6 is still great. forgive my ignorance, but does it already have access > to those, or is it just the 2 that the system monitor shows? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:38 AM > Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Terra Soft Unifies Power Ecosystem with YDL > v5.0.2:Announcement 14 June 2007 > > >>> Will this version take full control of the PS3's 8 cell PCU's? >> As far as I know, the PS3 only uses 7 of the 8 SPUs and the hypervisor >> of the host system only provides access to 6 of them for guest systems. >> Therefore it is not possible to make use of all 8 SPUs in linux. >> _______________________________________________ >> yellowdog-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general >> HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' >> > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
