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> Will Huawei be able to use this processor design (now that it is open sourced) to build it's own chips, bypassing ARM restriction & US IP ? Which operating s
by pkaye 7y ago
> Will Huawei be able to use this processor design (now that it is open sourced) to build it's own chips, bypassing ARM restriction & US IP ?
Which operating system would the use? Is that supported with the power instruction set?
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoPower is totally mainstream and well established. You have your choice of a bunch of operating systems and compilers. Linux, llvm/clang, GCC, etc. all there for a really long time. Windows also ran on the PowerPC architecture at various points. In 1996 I worked briefly a company that had a bunch of "PERP" ("PowerPC Reference Platform") machines lying around given to them by IBM that for application porting to Windows NT PowerPC. For kicks, I put Linux on them, so they'd actually be useful for something. PowerPC is not strictly identical to Power architecture, but is related and most tools and OSes can be made to work either.