From 68542299a3ed4b8923c717cb980860ff0913051c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "addw@fa2f8cb1790dfac204f803a3bfd8edda6ef3edc6" Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:50:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Quick introduction about OpenPOWER and why chosen by Libre-soc --- openpower.mdwn | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/openpower.mdwn b/openpower.mdwn index d7d2dbfa7..cc0459042 100644 --- a/openpower.mdwn +++ b/openpower.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +# OpenPOWER +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]]. + +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. + # Evaluation EULA released! looks good. -- 2.30.2