On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 09:42 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Kumar Gala wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:56 PM, Mark Nelson wrote: > > > What cores have SPE at the moment? Also, perhaps more importantly, > > > are there any plans to have Altivec and SPE in the same core? > > > > The e500 cores's from Freescale. > > > > No, they are pretty much mutually exclusive. > > Bummer, only now do I realize this thread is not about the Synergistic > Processing Elements but about the Signal Processing Extension...
Yeah, it's a bit of a downer. Luckily most of the Cell kernel code uses SPU rather than SPE. Happily it looks like SPU will become ambiguous if Niagara II support lands in the kernel: http://realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT090406012516&p=2 sigh :) -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person
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