[mythtv-users] PS3 Patches - anyone want to test them?

[Mark Kendall]

On 7/6/07, Patrick Mansfield <patman at aracnet.com> wrote:
> Are you building using the ppu compiler with cell support? That might help
> the performance some. It needs gcc 4.3 (AFAIK) or the special ppu-gcc via
> bsc binaries.
>
> Simple test for cell support via:
>
>         touch dummy.c
>         gcc -c -mcpu=cell dummy.c

Unfortunately my gcc version does not support this, though if i find
the time I'll try and upgrade to see what impact it has.

> Probably better to use sdk2.1 versions:
>
> http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/libspe2-2.1.0-0.ppc.rpm
> http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/libspe2-devel-2.1.0-0.ppc.rpm

Yes - this was on my todo list already. 2.1 also adds a little new
functionality .

> And (for anyone) ppu-gcc and ppu-g++:
>
> http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/cellsimulator/sdk2.1/ppu-gcc-4.1.1-10.ppc.rpm

I have this installed but it just segfaults on ydl 5.0 - I should
really find the time to compile it from source...

Thanks for your input.

Regards

Mark