Fedora/PowerPC on PlayStation 3

[Brian D. Carlstrom]

At Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:21:15 +1100,
Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> I know this is not really fedora related, but I thought the PS[3] used the
> cell processor, not a PowerPC processor, and that the cell processors
> were dramatically different to the PPC.
> 
> What gives?

The Cell is a PowerPC plus 8 co-processors. The OS runs on the PowerPC core.

-bri

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)

    Cell combines a general-purpose Power Architecture core of modest
    performance with streamlined coprocessing elements which greatly
    accelerate multimedia and vector processing applications, as well as
    many other forms of dedicated computation.

    ...

    The PPE will work with conventional operating systems due to its
    similarity to other 64-bit PowerPC processors, while the SPEs are
    designed for vectorized floating point code execution.