[FFmpeg-soc] SoC and Cell task

[Luca Barbato]

Mike Melanson wrote:
> A student could be expected to:
> 
> 1) develop on PS3 if available
> 2) develop on IBM's sim environment if no PS3 readily available
> 3) be granted shell access to a Cell machine (PS3 or real machine)
> further along in the summer based on progress
> 
> Follow up on the IBM option. Otherwise, I'm sure we can come up with a
> PS3 somewhere.
> 
> BTW, have you successfully installed and use the sim environment?

I had long time ago, I could try again and update the ebuild accordingly.

> I haven't, and it may be unreasonable to expect a student to get it to
> work if we can't.

On Gentoo I can guarantee installing the cross compilers is quite well 
tested, I'll check if the latest mambo (aka systemsim) installs correctly.

lu


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Luca Barbato
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