From: toshywoshy Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 20:09:58 +0000 (+0100) Subject: change the OpenPOWER ISA instances to POWER ISA in the intro, the ISA is called POWER ISA X-Git-Tag: opf_rfc_ls005_v1~1779 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dff3d3c0437245c090b966e6099848f311d5b803;p=libreriscv.git change the OpenPOWER ISA instances to POWER ISA in the intro, the ISA is called POWER ISA --- diff --git a/openpower.mdwn b/openpower.mdwn index fe8ada80b..b2708d062 100644 --- a/openpower.mdwn +++ b/openpower.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ # OpenPOWER In the late 1980s [[!wikipedia IBM]] developed a POWER family of processors. -This evolved to a specification known as the OpenPOWER ISA. In 2019 IBM made the OpenPOWER 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 OpenPOWER ISA. The names +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 OpenPOWER ISA (v2.08, v3.0, v3.1). +i5, i7, i9 etc. and are frequently conflated with versions of the POWER ISA (v2.08, v3.0, v3.1). -Libre-SOC is basing its [[Simple-V Vectorisation|sv]] CPU extensions on OpenPOWER because it wants to be able to specify a machine that can be completely trusted, and because OpenPOWER, thanks to IBM's involvement, +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. See wikipedia page @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ EULA released! looks good. # Links * OpenPOWER Membership - + * OpenPower HDL Mailing list * [[openpower/isatables]] * [[openpower/whitepapers]]