On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/29/2014 01:21 PM, Stefan Kristiansson wrote: >> What speaks in OpenRISC favor is IMO a stronger eco-system around it. > > Well, besides what we (M-Labs) do - which includes some more physics > stuff, MMU development, NetBSD port and MiSoC - LM32 is also used in > White Rabbit: > http://www.ohwr.org/projects/white-rabbit/wiki/WRUsers > There are also a few implementations of LM32 in proprietary ASICs that I > have heard of. >
Yes, I didn't mean to be dismissive of the work you've got going on. There's a live and kicking community and users around LM32, no doubt about it. I still think that the sw eco-system with active development on toolchains etc is stronger on the OpenRISC side. > At the point where those projects started, mor1kx wasn't around, and > LM32 was the only reasonable open softcore. It's a bit annoying that the > small open-CPU community is now split between LM32 and mor1kx. Maybe we > could look more at supporting mor1kx as a CPU option for MiSoC (which > would also make LM32 vs. mor1kx benchmarks easier)... > I agree, it's a bit unfortunate. Otoh, competition has its benefits too, LM32 has been one (among others) driving force to make mor1kx better. :) But as you said, the open-CPU community is small, so we definitely will benefit from collaboration both ways. Stefan _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
