On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 17:50 +0100, Kassen wrote:
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> Great. Some more inspiration by way of the Chaos Communication
> Congress
> a few days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4loZGYqaZ7I
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> I read that too.
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> I wonder how much that will do for homebrew though; The Cell, while
> interesting, needs some sort of very specific compiler to make it do
> anything worthwhile. Back when it was new there were some articles on
> that, looked like fascinating stuff, but more for multinationals than
> for enthusiasts in basements.
Well, the toolchain for the cell is gcc[1]. It was accessible to mortals
via the linux install option, and the processor is quite well
documented.
cheers,
dave
[1]
http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/cell/toolchain.php
Received on Sun Jan 02 2011 - 22:28:24 GMT