Set Architecture (PPC ISA) is extended, enabling many different flavours
within a well supported family to co-exist, long-term, without conflict,
right across the board.
-* This will facilitate the use of PPC in novel or niche applications
- without breaking the PPC ISA into incompatible islands. This is about
- more than just our project.
-* Libre-SOC's project is to extend the PPC to integrate GPU and VPU
+* This is about more than just our project. Our proposals will facilitate the use of PPC in novel or niche applications without breaking the PPC ISA into incompatible islands.
+* PPC will gain a competitive market advantage by removing the need for separate VPU or GPU functions in RTL or ASICs thus enabling lower cost systems.
+ Libre-SOC's project is to extend the PPC to integrate the GPU and VPU
functionality directly as part of the PPC ISA (example: Broadcom
- VideoCore IV being based around extensions to an ARC core). By not
- needing separate VPU or GPU RTL or ASICs this will enable lower cost
- systems to be built so giving PPC a competitive market advantage.
+ VideoCore IV being based around extensions to an ARC core).
* Libre-SOC's extensions will be easily adopted, as the standard GNU/Linux
distributions will very deliberately run unmodified on our ISA,
including full compatibility with illegal instruction requirements.