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IBM releases Cell Linux source |
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Wednesday, 01 June 2005 |
In an 8 part series of emails to the seclists Linux Kernel mailing
list, IBM employee Anrd Bergmann revealed merge files for the Linux
kernel source ported to Cell-based systems. In his introduction, he
says:
"This series of patches add support for a fifth platform type in the
ppc64 architecture tree. The Broadband Processor Architecture (BPA) is
what machines using the Cell processor should be following and
currently only prototype hardware exists for it."
"Except for the last patch, these are functionally the same as the
first version but are updated for 2.6.12-rc4 and contain changes based
on the feedback I got so far."
"The first three patches add some infrastructure that is used by BPA
machines but is not really specific to them can could be used by other
new platform types as well."
"The next three patches add the actual platform code, which should be usable for any BPA compatible implementation."
"Patch 7 introduces a new file system to make use of the SPUs inside
the processors. This patch is still in a prototype stage and not
intended for merging yet. The final patch adds some user space code in
the Documentation directory that clarifies how to use the file system.
This one should become a separate package at a later point."
The series of emails containing the source code are archived here.
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