Post: [GREAT NEWS:]►Mathieulth Unlocks 7th SPU !!!
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02-06-2011, 12:16 AM
#1
NextGenTactics
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I just read on Mathieulth's twitter page, that the man himself has found a way to unlock the 7th SPU.
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Mathieulth responding on whether this can be used in conjuction with Graf_Chokolo's 3.41 linux install.
Originally posted by another user
Mathieulh:
Yes you just need to use Update Manager to write 0x07 to 0x48C30 on the syscon eeprom and reboot. Write 0x06 to restore.
Yes you just need to use Update Manager to write 0x07 to 0x48C30 on the syscon eeprom and reboot. Write 0x06 to restore.
For those's of you that dont know the cell chip has 8 SPUs, Sony in the PS3 only use/allow 7 though (helped and maybe still does in making the percentage yield of cell processors higher; a common enough technique in semiconductors- see why overclocking/unlocking works as well as it does), in software or more accurately in the old otherOS/linux mode this was reduced to 6 SPUs with one being hidden/taken for background menu, security and the like.
This hack then restores the 7th SPU for linux/otherOS mode (or indeed what is called that mode these days given all the recent hacking work).
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02-06-2011, 12:58 AM
#11
dPaws
Hurah!
Originally posted by TROLOLNEWBS
7 SPU processors. They each have 256 KB of non-shared memory and are connected via a high-speed ring that allows for DMA between each other and the PowerPC host processor. They are not pipelined or cached. This makes it rather different than an multi-core x86 with shared memory, pipelining and caching. Also, the SPU processors do not use the same instruction set as the PowerPC so you've got some asymmetry there. In short, your typical shared-memory, multithreaded program won't just drop onto the Cell without some work (with the caveat that computer science works hard at making different machines appear to be the same so some implementors try hard to automate the process).
Eh, definition? I think so =D
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02-06-2011, 01:42 AM
#16
ImmortalMods
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Originally posted by NextGenTactics
what the hell does this mean?
what would this or could this mean?
02-06-2011, 02:27 AM
#18
El Violador
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