Fedora/PowerPC on PlayStation 3
Brian D. Carlstrom
bdc at carlstrom.com
Tue Nov 21 17:54:09 UTC 2006
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.
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