On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:25:08AM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > YDL has no more than what we posted the links for on this list... > > > > We have already sent an email off to Sony. We will keep you posted > > on the feedback. > > > > OKay, seems spooky that this cell processor is a PowerPC chip and runs > at 4GHz. I think that it *has* to be something more. > > In any case .. if its a PPC then it falls under the PPC Port project as > an "also to be looked at" type of thing.
Well, the Cell processor does have a PPC core, i think it might be slightly down-featured with regard to the PPC970, not sure though. But the interesting part of it are the 8 Cell units (SPEs), but this can be handled as an add-on unit, just like altivec too, i guess. Friendly, Sven Luther _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
