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Why are you spreading so much misinformation? > only SPARC V8 is an open standard. The OpenSPARC T2 is v9. "Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed un
by sprash 8y ago
Why are you spreading so much misinformation?
> only SPARC V8 is an open standard. The OpenSPARC T2 is v9.
"Source code is written in Verilog, and licensed under many licenses. Most OpenSPARC T2 source code is licensed under the GPL." - Wikipedia
> No its not. SPARC is not a modular ISA in the same way RISC-V is and the RISC-V believe that a modular ISA will be needed.
"The "Scalable" in SPARC comes from the fact that the SPARC specification allows implementations to scale from embedded processors up through large server processors, all sharing the same core (non-privileged) instruction set" - Wikipedia
- nickik 8y agoThe RTL can be open without the ISA being open. > "The "Scalable" in SPARC comes from the fact that the SPARC specification allows implementations to scale from embedded processors up through large server processors, all sharing the same core (non-privileged) instruction set" - Wikipedia Yes. SPARC is a RISC and therefore it can scale well in implementation. RISC-V however has taken the modular approach to ISA design far further then anything else has so far. Again, maybe you should actually read about the design of RISC-V and why the didn't want to adopt SPARC. You accuse me of spreading misinformation, but you don't seem to know what the difference between SPARC and RISC-V are.