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Tuesday, 07 June 2005 |
At this year's LinuxTag conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, Arnd Bergmann of IBM will speak about the Cell Processor Programming Model on the Linux operating system. The talk takes place on 25/6/05 from 15:00-16:00.
The programme webpage precis says Bergmann will talk about how only the
kernal can interface with the Cell's SPU's, and how therefore an
abstract interface to the SPU's needs to be provided by device drivers
or system calls. The most important features include loading a program
binary onto an SPU, tranferring memory between an SPU program and a
Linux user space program, and execution synchronization. Other
challenges are integrating SPU program execution into debuggers and
profilers (something that will be of great interest to games
programmers also: edit and continue build, please? -D).
The precis finishes, tantalizingly (if you're a Linux kernel hacker):
"A model has been proposed to provide an interface that attempts to
integrate well into the
existing set of Linux system calls and enable software authors to
easily integrate the use of SPUs into their own libraries and
applications."
Worth watching out for; there should be at least some relevant information for prospective PS3 developers. |
