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MIPS? PowerPC? They're all open, albeit with somewhat varying definitions of the term.
by xorcist 3y ago
MIPS? PowerPC?
They're all open, albeit with somewhat varying definitions of the term.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoMIPS wasn't opened up until they were already dead, and then almost immediately threw in the towel and joined up with RISC-V. PowerPC basically the same, not opened until after it was irrelevant. OpenPOWER is in the same enterprise market as SPARC and IBM is not far from Oracle on the "do not engage litigious bureaucracy" chart.
- monocasa 3y agoMIPS didn't really open. They made a big deal about it, but it turned out to mean something to the effect of 'we'll open more of our build system to partners who pay for a traditional MIPS license. No third party MIPS cores. No general release of MIPS RTL.'