Installing and configuring ALF

The ALF for Hybrid-x86 library should be installed as a component of the SDK 3.0.

Refer to the SDK 3.0 Installation Guide for more information about installation and configuration.

The following packages are provided for the ALF for Hybrid-x86 library.

Table 1. ALF for Hybrid-x86 packages
Package Description
alf-hybrid-3.0.0-*.x86_64.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 runtime. This contains the optimized ALF host library for the x86_64 system.
alf-hybrid-3.0.0-*.ppc64.rpm This package contains the static SPE accelerator runtime library and the ALF PPE daemon program.
alf-hybrid-devel-3.0.0-*.ppc64.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 development package for PPC64 - contains the SPE accelerator header files, and error-checking enabled SPE accelerator libraries.
alf-hybrid-devel-3.0.0-*.x86_64.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 development package for x86_64 - contains the header files, optimized static x86_64 host libraries, and x86_64 error-checking enabled libraries.
alf-hybrid-trace-3.0.0-*.ppc64.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 trace enabled runtime for PPC64 - contains the trace-enabled SPE accelerator runtime library and the ALF PPE daemon program.
alf-hybrid-trace-3.0.0-*.x86_64.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86- trace enabled runtime for the x86_64 host - contains the traced enabled host runtime library.
alf-hybrid-trace-devel-3.0.0-*.ppc64.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 trace-enabled development package - contains the trace-enabled header files for SPE.
alf-hybrid-trace-devel-3.0.0-*.x86_64.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 trace-enabled development package - contains the trace-enabled header files for the x86_64 host and the trace-enabled x86_64 static host library.
alf-hybrid-cross-devel-3.0.0-*.noarch.rpm ALF Hybrid-x86 Cross development package - contains the header files and libraries needed for cross-architecture development.
alfman-3.0-*.noarch.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 man pages.
alf-hybrid-examples-source-3.0.0-*.noarch.rpm ALF for Hybrid-x86 example sources.