= Main Inclusion Report for libspe2 =

== Requirements ==

 0. ''Availability:'' [[http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libs/libspe2]]; available (intentionally) only for powerpc
 0. ''Rationale:''
  * Needed for support of PPU/SPU multiprocessing on PS3 and Cell platforms.
 0. ''Security:''
  * No CVE or Secunia history.
  * The user must be root or in the spu group. No privilege escalation is performed.
  * The library performs no network activity.
  * I (ColinWatson) have checked quickly over the source code for obvious badness. I see nothing especially scary, and its use is very constrained and hardware-specific.
 0. ''Quality assurance:''
  * The package appears to work out of the box and requires no configuration. It does not use debconf. The initscripts package already takes care of mounting the spufs virtual filesystem.
  * libspe2 was packaged specifically for Ubuntu and has no Debian maintainer.
  * [[http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cbe-oss-dev/|Upstream]] appears to be vigorous and competent.
  * I do not know of an upstream bug tracker.
  * The package is used on Play``Station 3 systems and other systems containing the Cell Broadband Engine to interact with its processing elements. It is specific to the powerpc architecture.
 0. ''Standards compliance:'' 
  * The package complies with the FHS, Debian Policy, and library packaging standards as best as I can see (it installs a file into `/usr/spu`, but as I understand it that is a cross-compilation standard).
  * The one oddity I see is that it ought to use `binfmt-support` instead of custom registration code. I will convert it when I have time.
  * It uses standard debhelper packaging and a quilt patch system.
 0. ''Dependencies:''
  * None outside main.
 0. ''Background information:''
  * http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-libspe2/ and similar Cell-specific documents may help explain what libspe2 does.

== Reviewers ==

ColinWatson.

MartinPitt: approved