[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] libea ppe side support

[Kazunori Asayama]

Joel Schopp <jschopp at austin.ibm.com> wrote:
> One of the items being worked on at IBM is symbol translation from ppe to spe in 
> order to make programming easier for the end user.  As part of that project we are 
> adding support for a number of functions that work on effective addresses instead of 
> local store addresses.  Some of these functions require PPE side support and don't 
> fall well into an existing category.  This patch adds a new class of ppe assisted 
> functions and the first 4 of those functions to libspe2.

I have a question about the SPE side. Is it planned to share
__send_to_ppe, which is the common and public PPE assisted-call
support function in newlib, between newlib and libea ? If so, I
suppose that we need to change the external interface of __send_to_ppe
because a handle 64 bit value can't be returned via the current
interface.

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(ASAYAMA Kazunori
  (asayama at sm.sony.co.jp))
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