Playing with Mambo Cell simulator part II

New release from IBM!

New and improve Cell SDK!

The new mambo works and works quite fine! I have already provided an ebuild for it and probably in short time I’ll add some gentoo custom bits to make working with it less annoying. You may check my overlay for it, I couldn’t get tile play with the tk UI yet but maybe I could try harder and have the simulator gui a tad nicer.

On the other side, there is the rest of the SDK is a nightmare =/

I bitched already about improper software distribution and seems that somebody read it since now the proposed medium is even more awkward: alloycanwatlowcarbnosourceincluded DAMN ISO IMAGE!

The fantastic iso image:

nemesi mnt # mount -o loop /tmp/CellSDK11.iso /mnt/iso/
nemesi mnt # ls iso
README.txt autorun css images pdfs
ShelExec.exe autorun.inf html media software

ShelExec.exe!?!

nemesi mnt # file iso/ShelExec.exe
iso/ShelExec.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit

I hope that’s a joke…

Bright side: the pdfs in the same named dir are quite nice and is quite good have all the documentation in one place.

Dark side: again this is a fedora only distribution and the sources from bsc.es are again a messy tarball.

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