Cell SDK Released [Archive]

JediSanf

11-15-2005, 06:06 PM

To any budding game developers out there, the Cell SDK was released on the ninth. Hosted at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/) it is geared towards developing a stable Linux release.

Linux on Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA)

The Cell Broadband Engine (CBE), also known as Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA), has been included into the linux kernel tree as the fifth platform type in the ppc64 architecture tree.

In this site, we provide information and packages to enable linux on the CBEA. For those who have real hardware, we provide the information and packages to install a CBEA native environment. For those who have not real hardware, we provide the information and packages which combined with Full-System Simulator for CBE and other IBM alphaWorks packages build a cross-hosted simulator environment on x86-based machines.

Maybe Sony was serious about having Linux on the hard drive for the PS3 release?

Deathbane27

11-15-2005, 06:12 PM

Sony... yeah, the Cell probably has DRM shit and virus vulnerability built right in!

nonchalance

11-15-2005, 07:15 PM

So does this mean that the PS3 effectively has an open SDK?

Dabombpizza

11-15-2005, 09:00 PM

If you could get linux running on PS3...that would just be amazing...

Abdiel

11-15-2005, 09:43 PM

>Sony... yeah, the Cell probably has DRM shit and virus vulnerability built right in!

Doubtful, since it's an IBM processor.

bobbler

11-15-2005, 09:50 PM

If you could get linux running on PS3...that would just be amazing...

That is sort of the plan. It was mentioned that they were thinkin about preinstalling linux on the HDDs -- whether that happens or not is another story. I can safely say there will be a linux kit for PS3 though.

PS2 had a linux kit, but it was hard to get a hold of.

danhoo

11-15-2005, 10:26 PM

I've got the PS2 Linux kit -- the PS2 lacks the horsepower to really use Linux for a lot of general purpose computing tasks. But I can run VNC to my Windows machine and do all my usual tasks from my couch, in TV-low-resolution glory! Oh, I also find it works ok as a living-room MP3 player.

That said, after a bit of patching, you can also do some interesting graphics experiments, although it's no substitute for a real PS2 devkit. I don't think you could do direct VU programming, for example.

Oh, and the "PS2 brand" USB keyboard and mouse thing was, uh, nice, I guess.