X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn;h=ce5f72324835953aa23d068a8ec75ad9009aefc4;hb=db45ed892b252d09bfdfe186a463a59d1ea8b679;hp=dc7d6e64715e285632d31c7ada2e55d7900a5b54;hpb=4c3ddc1b0b0c21e55c958852ff60277a7155bf78;p=libreriscv.git diff --git a/nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn b/nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn index dc7d6e647..ce5f72324 100644 --- a/nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn +++ b/nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ # NL.net proposal -* 2022-08-051 -* [[discussion]] +* 2022-08-051, approved 24 Oct 2022 +* [[nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg/discussion]] +* ## Project name @@ -11,6 +12,22 @@ Libre-SOC OpenPOWER ISA RFCs +# Summary + +In earlier NLnet Grants, thanks to EU funding, we developed Draft +SVP64 (a Vector Extension for the Power ISA), around a hundred +new Draft instructions that dramatically improves the Supercomputing-class +Power ISA, a Simulator, thousands +of unit tests and over 350 pages of documentation. What we could +not do however was submit a Specification to the OpenPOWER ISA +Working Group because the ISA WG was in the process of being +ratified. That has now been done, and we need to begin the +formal process of writing up "Requests For Change" and submitting +them. The end result will be an extremely powerful Vector ISA suitable +for use in Digitally-Sovereign end-user products. + +# Submission to NLnet + Please be short and to the point in your answers; focus primarily on the what and how, not so much on the why. Add longer descriptions as attachments (see below). If English isn't your first language, don't