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Date:      Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:55:26 -0500
From:      Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>
To:        Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: powerpc/powerpcspe has landed
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That uses an e6500 core, which has a standard FPU. The regular PowerPC port
will run on that, not PowerPC SPE.

- Justin

On Oct 26, 2016 13:52, "Joe Nosay" <superbisquit@gmail.com> wrote:

> This will bounce.
> http://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
>
> Is it ready for that?
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> No, this is for the embedded SoCs from NXP/Freescale using cores with the
>> Signal Processing Engine (a DSP-like FPU), particularly the e500v2 core.
>> The SPEs in the cell are a different architecture.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>> On Oct 26, 2016 11:08, "Kiryanov Vassily" <kvas@bf.pstu.ru> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Justin,
>> >
>> > Sorry for my incompetence but is this architecture includes IBM Cell
>> > (2xPPE + 8xSPE) or my PS3 will not boot such kernels? Googling could
>> > not resolve my doubts.
>> >
>> > Sunday, October 23, 2016, 4:06:37 AM, you wrote:
>> >
>> > JH> Hi folks,
>> >
>> > JH> Last night, with a couple commits today to tidy up, I landed a new
>> > JH> MACHINE_ARCH, of powerpcspe, into head.  It's been tested on my
>> RB800
>> > JH> and an AmigaOne A1222 (P1022-based board).  Currently there's no
>> > JH> support for ports (some things might work, but lang/gcc most
>> certainly
>> > JH> will *not* yet).
>> >
>> > JH> Happy hacking and testing.
>> >
>> > JH> - Justin
>> > JH> _______________________________________________
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best regards,
>> >  Kiryanov                            mailto:kvas@bf.pstu.ru
>> >
>> >
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