To be honest, I'm not fussed! I think that Daniel has summed it all up rather nicely and the guide that I've used is the Power ISA so 'power' would probably be the best name.
Cheers Tim On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:03:11 +0100, nathan binkert <n...@binkert.org> wrote: > Seems relatively definitive. > > Any opinions? Tim? You are the author, so in my opinion, you get the > final say. > > Nate > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Daniel Becker <d...@cva.stanford.edu> > wrote: >> On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:51 PM, nathan binkert wrote: >> >>>> I'm sure Tim knows best wherher he's implemented POWER or PowerPC... >>>> If it is the latter, I'd favor using PPC for naming just to keep >>>> things brief. >>> >>> I'm not totally familiar with the naming, but isn't POWER the superset >>> of it all? I guess the real question is, if tim really did just ppc >>> and someone were going to actually do power, would they do it in the >>> same directory or not. If it is the same, then power seems the right >>> name. If not, probably ppc. >> >> The POWER and PowerPC ISAs used to be slightly different, with neither >> being a true superset of the other: While PowerPC was based on POWER >> (the architecture of the initial IBM RS/6000 machines), it included >> some additional features and instructions and removed others; also, >> there were some subsequent extensions to POWER that never made it into >> PowerPC. Older versions of the PowerPC ISA actually used to have an >> appendix detailing the differences, but that seems to have been >> removed from the current one. It should be noted, however, that POWER3 >> (the processor) and up actually implement the 64-bit PowerPC ISA (with >> IBM's proprietary PowerPC AS extensions), so POWER (the ISA) is really >> only of historical interest by now. To further add to the confusion, >> the PowerPC 2.02 ISA was recently (2006) merged with the "Book E" >> embedded variant of the architecture developed by Freescale to form >> what is now (as of version 2.03 and up) officially known as the "Power >> ISA" (note capitalization), with -S and -E variants for servers and >> the embedded space, respectively. >> >> In short, "power" would indeed be the more appropriate name. >> >> Daniel >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-dev mailing list >> m5-dev@m5sim.org >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > m5-dev@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list m5-dev@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
