[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 experimental patches updated

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 13:08 -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Gerhard Stenzel wrote:
> >> So you tried my spe-samples-1.0 and they didn't work?  Could you report 
> > what
> >> happened?
> > 
> > actually .. no ... I tried some IBM SDK 2.0 samples from alphaworks .. I 
> > can have a look at your spe-samples-1.0 tomorrow ... I was not aware of it 
> > .. will it be easy to find?
> 
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/
> 
> Currently, hello-from-spe will hang for some unknown reason, but all
> should run.  I haven't tested them in a while though.
> 
> The ps3-linux patches have no changes to spu support, so if there is a problem
> there is a good chance it is in the mainline kernel.

There used to be this sparsemem problem causing SPE programs to crash,
did the fix ever get into mainline ?

Ben.