From: toshywoshy Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:50:15 +0000 (+0100) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Tag: opf_rfc_ls005_v1~1736 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6c3cbd70514446d935374ad697e3b2e8c8c7d4c6;p=libreriscv.git --- diff --git a/openpower.mdwn b/openpower.mdwn index b2708d062..69f7ee449 100644 --- a/openpower.mdwn +++ b/openpower.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ In the late 1980s [[!wikipedia IBM]] developed a POWER family of processors. This evolved to a specification known as the POWER ISA. In 2019 IBM made the POWER ISA [[!wikipedia Open_source]], to be looked after by the existing [[!wikipedia OpenPOWER_Foundation]]. Here is a longer history of [[!wikipedia IBM_POWER_microprocessors]]. These IBM proprietary processors happen to implement what is now known as the POWER ISA. The names POWER8, POWER9, POWER10 etc. are product designations equivalent to Intel -i5, i7, i9 etc. and are frequently conflated with versions of the POWER ISA (v2.08, v3.0, v3.1). +i5, i7, i9 etc. and are frequently conflated with versions of the POWER ISA (v2.07, v3.0c, v3.1b). Libre-SOC is basing its [[Simple-V Vectorisation|sv]] CPU extensions on POWER ISA, because it wants to be able to specify a machine that can be completely trusted, and because POWER, thanks to IBM's involvement, is designed for high performance.