[ydl-gen] Will apps have to be recoded for PS3 CELL?

[David Seikel]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:33:05 -0600 "Chris Hollman"
<ps3linuxinfo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Admittedly I have never programmed (well, beyond 'hello world'
> anyways) but people are trying to tell me that Linux apps will have
> to be recoded (recompiled?) to work with the Cell processor on PS3
> and I maintain that if an app can run in Linux now you will be able
> to download it and run it on YDL 5.0 on the PS3 without having to
> look for a "CELL Coded/re-compiled" version.
> 
> Who is right?

The CELL is an ordinary PPC with extra co processors on it.  Ordinary
PPC code will run on the PPC bit, and ignore the rest.

If I remember correctly from a web site I saw a while ago, Sony
maintains the CELL portion of the standard gcc compiler, so even if a
PPC linux binary won't run, a recompile should be all that is needed.
No rewriting of the code should be needed.

Disclaimer - I have no PS3 or YDL 5, this is all theory based on
information from public web sites and decades of experience.
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