__/ [ Donn Miller ] on Thursday 17 August 2006 20:15 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Open source SPARC details emerge
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>> | Open source news from Sun continues today, with the release of
>> | architectural documents for the OpenSPARC T1 - the open source version
>> | of Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor.
>> |
>> | This comes several months after the original release of the source code
>> | for the design of the '64-bit, 32-threaded' processor, at the end of
>> | March.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | It's an interesting chip, and due to the GNU GPL open-source license
>> | it's released under, will soon be embedded into university lectures...
>> `----
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> Well, the SPARC alwas was an open standard. If I understand correctly,
> Sun contracted various vendors to manufacture SPARC processors, Fujitsu
> being one of them.
Interesting. *smile* I never realised this and I suppose the implication may
be that projects such as the Open Source GPU can reuse some SPARC sub-units
for quicker development. Imagine having such complexity (gates/transistors)
re-used in Open Source designs. Maybe they could start a project hosting
domain like EmbeddedForge, unless there is already also something as such
(maybe part of SourceForge, or one to which SourceForge is an 'umbrella').
When searchable by interfaces or general description, it's quite a heaven.
But can you imagine the degree of IP and GPL violations...?
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