Re: Interest in Cell architecture SIG

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer gmail com>]

On Sat, 31 May 2008 13:34:07 +0100
Aidan Delaney <a j delaney brighton ac uk> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 	I have mutilated Jakub Jelinek's excellent binutils and gcc packages to
> create binutils-spu and gcc-spu.  Both mutant packages need a
> significant amount of polishing.  However, I'm wondering if others are
> interested in a Fedora tool chain for the Cell processor?  I'm primarily
> interested in the PS3 architecture.
> 	So 
> (a) Are you interested in a Fedora Architecture SIG for Cell who would
> test and maintain a SPU tool chain, and
> (b) Are you interested in taking the route I've taken in constructing a
> tool chain for Fedora (GCC 4.3 based) rather than supporting the IBM
> Cell SDK (GCC 4.1 based)?

I'd rather do this under the PPC SIG, rather than create a whole new
one just for Cell.

Now, providing a whole new toolchain might be possible but you'd have
to make sure it doesn't conflict with the stock toolchains.

josh