Re: Cell - linux compatibility question

Donald Chiarulli wrote:

Hello folks..

We are about to order a 1U dual cell server from Mercury Computer, see:

http://www.mc.com/products/view/index.cfm?id=96&type=boards

They are offering a linux (yellow dog) from terra-soft on this  platform based on the 2.6.14-1 kernel.  I understand that your kernel  (I assume that it is fedora core 5) is built for the blade board that  you show on your website.

Do you know anyone who has experience with porting the Cell GNU  toolchain to this platform?

Any predictions on the relative difficulty?

Thanks in advance for any input you may be able to provide.

Any powerpc toolchain will work out of the box.  The SPU toolchain isn't mainline fsf yet, but I assume terra-soft bundles the SPU gnu toolchain as well.  If not you can get it here:

http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/