Dieter wrote: >> He wants a free processor. The major ones are the Niagara (SPARC), Leon >> (SPARC) and OpenRISC. The free ARM processors have all been hunted down >> and killed by ARM Ltd. >
> If they are "free" in the copyleft sense, how could ARM Ltd. kill them? Patents protecting the ISA. At http://www.opencores.org/projects.cgi/web/nnARM/overview there was a free ARM clone a few years ago. There has been some news coverage: http://www.us.design-reuse.com/news/news277.html http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/03/open.source.processor.idg/index.html 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)
