On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:09:41 -0700 Kai Staats <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a former employee of Fixstars and huge fan of YDL on the PS3, I > offer this link with all due respect to both Sony and GeoHot: > > http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/01/three-years-later-the-ps3-gets-hacked.ars > _______________________________________________ IBM clarified (last November) that they have ceased all further development on the Cell and have moved along the direction of heterogenous multicore systems of which the Cell is the first implementation of instead. The article discussing this is here: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/11/end-of-the-line-for-ibms-cell.ars It may be that the next implementation may look something like the Toshiba SpursEngine. As far as YDL and related software is concerned it was clarified in a discussion in this list last year that YDL nor related software will run on the Toshiba SpursEngine. Regarding it's plans Fixstars announced that it is developing software for homogeneous multicore systems instead. That announcement, made last December, is here: http://www.fixstars.com/en/company/press/20091216.html Therefore, all be told, the interesting work on forward looking and advanced systems continues but most likely will be carried forward elsewhere by a different Linux distribution. Given how IBM has moved historically, newer designs should be coming to market surpassing the Cell and Intel i7 homogeneous designs early this year and build market presence firmly. That the Cell has been hacked will force proliferation of a variety of Linux distributions running on the Cell as the market gradually moves to whatever IBM has designed as whatever it envisions as it's progression "beyond the Cell". It is a safe bet that the Linux distribution ready to run on IBM's new design "beyond the Cell" will be the next premier distribution to use for serious forward looking work. ========= Refranes/Popular sayings: The Taino say:No hay mal que por bien no venga. There is no evil out of which good cannot blossom.
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
