[Cbe-oss-dev] Good resources for PS3 linux

[Akira Tsukamoto]

Hi,

When I was working for this project, we spent huge amount of resources for writing instructions of programming Cell/B.E. in easy documentation for hoping for attract programmers to write codes on Cell/B.E.

The programming documentation used to be uploaded here but it is gone now.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-linux-docs/ps3-linux-docs-08.06.09/

So please download,
ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/Sony-PS3/distro-kit/CELL-Linux-CL_20080609-ADDON.iso

and open this page.
doc/CellProgrammingPrimer.html

The best chapter which was about how to write SPE programming effectively without requiring tedious coding was not able to disclose, so the following was created as equivalent.

ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/Sony-PS3/mars/latest/mars-docs-1.1.5/html/index.html

I hope this information is useful.

Akira Tsukamoto

On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:23:21 -0800
Mike Acton <macton at cellperformance.com> mentioned:
> *I'm having fun playing with python at the moment, so I guess setting up a
> web server on it should be no problem.
> *
> If you have python running already, it has a webserver built-in.
> 
>    - python2: $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer <port>
>    - python3: $ python -m http.server <port>
> 
> *Are there any good sites on what can and cannot be done in linux for PS3
> (both technical and legal wise)?
> *
> The main value is for programming the SPUs. For anything else it's a
> generally poor choice. (And pretty much nothing you'll find off the shelf
> has been SPU optimized.)
> 
>    - IBM's docs are generally a good place to start:
>    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-linuxps3-1/
>    - There's a homebrew wiki but I don't know how well it's kept up:
>    http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/Cell_Programming_IBM
>    - And some of my stuff on cellperformance.com which I'll tell you right
>    now is totally out of date:
>    http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/11/cross-compiling-for-ps3-linux-1.html
> 
> Although I think there's a working RSX driver for FreeBSD (which I haven't
> tried, so I don't know anything else about it):
> http://www.ps3devwiki.com/wiki/PS3_GPU_Driver
> 
> Mike.
> 
> PS: Read Jonathan's thesis, because y'know, someone should. ;)
> http://eprints.utas.edu.au/11726/1/Adamczewski_thesis-pdf.pdf

-- 
Akira Tsukamoto