Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:00, Ozan Türkyılmaz wrote: > isn't writing a OS for dual (or n) core chips hell ? It may be Hell, but it's already done for most, if not all the BSD and *nix operating systems now. Ditto for 64-bit x86 mode. -- Switch to Secure OpenBSD with a KDE desktop!!! NOW

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Brook
> > Slightly off topic, but AMD has just announced its intention to ship a > > 4-core Opteron chip in 2007. The 4-core chip will use AMD's upcoming m2 > > socket. > > isn't writing a OS for dual (or n) core chips hell ? It's no different to any other SMP system, and most serious OS have been doing

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Ozan Türkyılmaz
On 16/11/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:42, Paul Brook wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:10, Lars Roland wrote: > > > On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there any chance that simulation of the > > > > IBM Cell pr

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 11:42, Paul Brook wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:10, Lars Roland wrote: > > On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any chance that simulation of the > > > IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? > > > > Although this would be g

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Brook
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 13:10, Lars Roland wrote: > On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any chance that simulation of the > > IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? > > Although this would be great, I am not sure how easy it is to get a > accurate simulation o

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Karel Gardas
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Lars Roland wrote: Well I must have come out of loop because it seams that there already is some simulation software available - http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8620812400.html - not sure how much of the CELL it actually simulates - the SPEs are after all not needed to bo

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 08:26, Lars Roland wrote: > Well I must have come out of loop because it seams that there already > is some simulation software available - > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8620812400.html Here is the link to IBM's Cell Software Webpage: http://www-128.ibm.com/de

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Dave Feustel
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 08:26, Lars Roland wrote: > On 11/16/05, Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any chance that simulation of the > > > IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? > > > > Although this would be grea

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: Is there any chance that simulation of the IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? Not very likely I think. It's a bit too much different beast from "normal" RISC/CISC CPUs, and has somewhat limited applications in general computing. But never say

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Lars Roland
On 11/16/05, Lars Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any chance that simulation of the > > IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? > > Although this would be great, I am not sure how easy it is to get a > accurate simulation of th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Cell processor

2005-11-16 Thread Lars Roland
On 11/16/05, Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any chance that simulation of the > IBM Cell processor will be added to Qemu? Although this would be great, I am not sure how easy it is to get a accurate simulation of this chip. The cell architecture consists of both a power process