[FFmpeg-devel] DaVinci DSP optimizations

[Luca Barbato]

Mike Melanson wrote:
> Luca Barbato wrote:
>> Ramiro Polla wrote:
>>>> For the CELL we have quite a degree of support and knowledgeable 
>>>> mentors, but lack of students so far...
>>> Unlike Multimedia Mike, I am not a strong supporter of Video Games,
>>> so I am not particularly happy with writing code for PS3s.
>> The CELL isn't just on ps3, you have it also on nice blades and other 
>> designs (including as 4 SPUs + core2 in toshiba laptops).
>>
>> So don't consider it as helping sony ^^
> 
> Further, I believe that Luca is able to arrange for a student to
> remotely login to a Cell machine. So there's no additional equipment
> cost for a student.
> 

If that is still unclear, you'll have access to my ps3+crossdistcc box 
and access to cell blades (courtesy of IBM). In addition I'll try to 
come up with a recipe for using mambo for additional profiling and testing.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero