Timothy Miller schrieb: > > Apparently, Sun is open-sourcing the design to their UltraSPARC > processor. Is this a good sign for open hardware designs,
So now we have a free highend processor beside the medium OR1200 and Leon and the large army of lowend ones. I hope there will be more of this in the future: While today we have some free processors, one project for a free 3D graphics core and some ecryption, network, communications, whatever stuff in a few years there might be another free 3D core created from scratch or one opened up by some small graphics company, etc. > or is it a > sign that Sun doesn't see much future in their SPARC processor, so > what could it hurt? :) I don't think so. I rather suppose that they want to motivate free software developers to port their software to SPARC, optimize it for that (including the 8x parallelism) and most importantly ensure that gcc will create good code for it. Philipp _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
