Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PlayStation 3

[Jason]

Eric A. Cottrell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So has anyone got their PS3 yet?  A store claims to have the 60 gb model
> a not too far distance away and I am tempted.  But I do not want to be
> first on the block to get one.

I picked up a PS3 a few weeks ago, and just got Gentoo booting on it 
(60GB version).  Out of the box, I think I set the CFLAGS wrong because 
the new stuff I've compiled is 32bit.  I've built the cross toolchain 
for the SPU's and successfully ran a test program or two.

Be mindful, as Eric said, compiles are slow.  The CellBE drastically 
dropped cost and heat by not efficiently handling out-of-order code.  I 
don't have the link handy, but the IBM CellBE development center has a 
PDF intro to coding for the Cell which shows how to handle if;then;else 
statements in an efficient manner.  Anything not coded that way will be 
horribly inefficient.  Hence, the long compile times on a dual core, 
3.2GHz processor.  :(

hth,

Jason.