Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PlayStation 3

[Kyle Kuypers]

I think Gentoo will provide us with a very capable cross dev environment.
I've installed Gentoo on a PS3 and used its built-in distributed compile
and crossdev features to offload most compiling of the normal linux
binaries for the PS3 onto my workhorse machines. Unfortunately the state
of cell specific development *right now* is in my opinion still
somewhat... inconvenient.

>From what I have been reading I believe gcc-4.3 and the latest version of
other build utilities will clean up alot of these problems and make it
very simple for gentoo distcc/crossdev machines to build gnuradio and its
dependencies for the cell with SPE support. I've been hanging out on the
#gentoo-ppc64 irc chan and think those guys are doing great work toward
getting the distro very close to what we want. I'm just about ready to try
an all gcc-4.3 based build on a number of boxes. Some info from the Gentoo
cell team's tool chain status can be found at:
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell/wiki/ToolchainStatus

If anyone else is working on the PS3 Gentoo route please e-mail me and we
can try to work through problems together.

BTW, does GNU Radio have an IRC chan?

> On 1/16/07, Bob McGwier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I understand the need and/or desire to do this natively but we really
>> want to be doing cross platform for this target.  256 MB is not enough
>> for these large compiles.
>
> OK, I can build gnuradio for the EFIKA board (powerpc) using OE now.
> Well, the compile finishes. If anyone has an EFIKA and wants to test
> it drop me an email. I do not think there are any graphics in my build
> and I had to disable gr-atsc and gr-video-sdl because they did not
> build.
>
> To repeat this for a PS3, some work creating a machine definition fo
> rthe PS3 is required. I don't actually have a PS3, so I'm only a
> little help there. Or you could send me a PS3 and hope I work on it :)
>
> Philip
>
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