Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PS3 and gnuradio

[Tom Rondeau]

Luke Scharf wrote:
> Clark Pope wrote:
>> Anyway, you're saying the way to go is FC6 and not YDL, right?  Maybe
>> Eric can confirm he plans to use FC6?
>
> I've been on the YDL list for a while, since we use them for their
> Apple XServe support.   (I run FC6 on my G5 Tower desktop, for the
> reasons that I'll mention shortly).
>
> From the discussions I've read, it seems that if you want to fully
> exploit the Cell parts of the CPU, YDL is probably the way to go -- at
> least they're packaging a lot of Cell-specific development tools that
> look like they could be useful.  Also, the TerraSoft crew is quite
> responsive to the needs of their scientific/numerical users.
>
> On the other hand, if you want something that looks like a regular
> Linux desktop, then Fedora is certainly the way to go -- there are a
> lot more pre-compiled packages, especially WRT desktop and multimedia
> applications.  Can anyone say anything more about Cell support on Fedora?
>
> Why not try both and see which one matches your needs better?
>
> -Luke

Most of IBM's development tools are built for FC5/6. I tried working
with them under Ubuntu, but the amount of time to get everything working
wasn't worth it and they worked out of the box/rpm under an FC6
installation.

This stuff includes the SPU/PPU GCC compiler's, IBM's CELL compilers,
the libspe2 library, the binutils, etc., as well as their simulation
environment for not running on a cell machine.

Now, I say this, but frankly, I don't like Fedora. If I could use
Debian/Ubuntu on the PS3, I would, but for the tools support, this is
just the way to go.

Tom