X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn;h=f4b636decba4feb20fc1755c0ec809b030c5249b;hb=2695b08bc7ec4d279f02f5dcd61b9b3ee460294c;hp=ba02df97c3799baf077f9f93df1b2df4f13afd3a;hpb=a34747e9dd4fb7220530f5021838af6f55f53adc;p=libreriscv.git diff --git a/nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn b/nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg.mdwn index ba02df97c..f4b636dec 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 -* [[nlnet_20222_opf_isa_wg/discussion]] +* 2022-08-051, approved 24 Oct 2022 +* [[nlnet_2022_opf_isa_wg/discussion]] +* ## Project name @@ -11,6 +12,30 @@ Libre-SOC OpenPOWER ISA RFCs +## NLnet Funding approved 25-Oct-2022 under EU Grant 101069594 + +This project is funded through the [NGI Zero Entrust Fund](https://nlnet.nl/entrust), a fund established by [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) with financial support from the European Commission's [Next Generation Internet](https://ngi.eu) program. Learn more on the [NLnet project page](https://nlnet.nl/project/Libre-SOC-OpenPOWER-ISA#ack). + + +[NLnet foundation logo](https://nlnet.nl) +[NGI Zero Entrust Logo](https://nlnet.nl/entrust) + +# 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