Bug#568123: Please add gnuspe architecture to dpkg

2010-02-18 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Guillem Jover | 2010-02-17 21:51:37 [+0100]: Yesterday did some superficial research, and I might have missunderstood stuff, but isn't the SPE in the E500 the same as the one on the Cells? Nope, tottally different thing: A Cell CPU (the PPU) has (usually) 8 SPEs (and SPE here is an acronym for

Bug#568123: Please add gnuspe architecture to dpkg

2010-02-17 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 19:29:29 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: * Guillem Jover | 2010-02-16 15:22:55 [+0100]: Besides spe as addition to the gnu name there is eabi (armel) and lp (lpia). Based on this I come up with powerpcgspe. I added a g there because ps3 cell blades are

Bug#568123: Please add gnuspe architecture to dpkg

2010-02-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 19:51:19 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: * Sebastian Andrzej Siewior | 2010-02-02 15:58:29 [+0100]: Another name could be powerpc_spe. Underscore is not possible either as it's a character separator in deb filenames. Okay powerpc-spe is not working because

Bug#568123: Please add gnuspe architecture to dpkg

2010-02-16 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Guillem Jover | 2010-02-16 15:22:55 [+0100]: Hi! Hi, Besides spe as addition to the gnu name there is eabi (armel) and lp (lpia). Based on this I come up with powerpcgspe. I added a g there because ps3 cell blades are powerpcs and have spe units. This should avoid confusion. Sorry, don't

Bug#568123: Please add gnuspe architecture to dpkg

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
tags 568123 + patch thanks * Sebastian Andrzej Siewior | 2010-02-02 15:58:29 [+0100]: Another name could be powerpc_spe. Okay powerpc-spe is not working because spe is not a CPU. Besides spe as addition to the gnu name there is eabi (armel) and lp (lpia). Based on this I come up with

Bug#568123: Please add gnuspe architecture to dpkg

2010-02-02 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-powe...@lists.debian.org The gnuspe port will use powerpc-linux-gnuspe instead of powerpc-linux-gnu. This results in utilisation of the SPU unit which is currently available e500 based CPUs. Is everyone fine with gnuspe ?