[Cbe-oss-dev] Support for embedded SPU ELF in dynamic libs

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 02 February 2007 21:44, Brian Watt wrote:
> Case 2: Naturally this is entirely different from having a PPU executable 
> which links with with PPU shared object libraries (.so files) which are 
> dynamically loaded either at load time or run time. Now within these PPU 
> shared object libraries there maybe SPU executables embedded. We did not 
> discuss this, and maybe that is what Arnd is talking about.
> 
Yes, this is what I meant. Shared libraries on the SPU are not possible
(dynamic libraries would be, but we don't do that yet). Embedding an SPU
binary into a shared library is a natural way to implement SPU support
in a generic way, as Uli pointed out already.

	Arnd <><