Re: IBM's PPC being open sourced .. what does this mean for embedded devices ?

From	Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: IBM's PPC being open sourced .. what does this mean for embedded devices ?
Date	2019-09-16 23:24 +0300
Organization	TGI
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On 9/16/2019 21:36, kristoff wrote:
> HI all,
> 
> 
> I know is this kind-of old news by now, but -as far as I see- this has 
> not been discussed here:
> 
> IBM is open-sourcing their PowerPC processor design.
> 
> (E.g. see here and other links:)
> https://www.eejournal.com/article/ibm-gives-away-powerpc-goes-open-source/)
> 
> 
> As PowerPC processors do are used in embedded devices, anybody any idea 
> what this would mean for the embedded-processor market?
> Are we now going to be flooded by Chinese ppc-based devboards?
> And is this going to kill the risc-v?

If someone takes on and starts making more power architecture processors
the impact could be huge, this is by far the best architecture I have
seen in my life - and I have explored most of them (and used power for
decades now).
Then it might make no impact at all, how many of those making decisions
of such magnitude can see further than the next quarter report and
can look into something other than what "everybody is doing".

> 
> 
> 
> BTW.
> Does anybody have an easy-to-use overview of different powerPC 
> architectures out there? (especially for embedded use)
> 
> I've been trying to understand the different wikipedia pages on the 
> powerPC architectures, but it all seams to one giant mix of names, 
> numbers and 'books' from a dozen different companies.

The only maker of Power architecture processors is NXP (since they
acquired Freescale). IBM had an embedded core some ages ago, 401
or something like that, which some other company - AMCC I think - took
on but I never used any of these.

> 
> Cheerio!
> Kr. Bonne,

Thanks for posting, I had missed the news so this is new to me.
Good news I suppose, gives some hope that this great architecture
will survive after all.

Hopefully I can migrate DPS to 64 bit power sooner rather than
later, I have been wanting to do it for quite some time now. Might also
be some help.

Dimiter

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