Fedora 17 for PowerPC
The IBM- and Red Hat-dominated development team has announced the release of Fedora 17 for PowerPC. It has been tested primarily on IBM POWER7 hardware, but even 32-bit binaries have been made...
View ArticleFreescale’s Network Division Adopting ARM
Freescale’s network processor division has announced it will begin offering ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) products for networking applications. Although Freescale has offered the i.MX series of...
View ArticleIBM to give each core 10MB of L3 cache (80MB total) on Power 7+ and more .
Author Timothy Prickett Morgan over at the wonderful site The Register has saved us from doing a lot of work by doing some intelligence analysis of IBM’s roadmaps. Highlights include a die shrink to...
View ArticlePowerPC Android Development Resumes
Almost two years ago, Mentor Graphics released a PowerPC port of Android (the 1.6 “Donut” release). It appears they have just released a 2.3 “Gingerbread” port as well, with not much more information...
View ArticleCuriosity is based on PowerPC
of interest… Nasa’s Curiosity rover is PowerPC based. It has two identical computers using the RAD750 CPU . Each computer has 256K of EEPROM, 256MB of DRAM, and 2GB of flash. Unfortunately it uses...
View ArticleIBM takes a que from Oreo and double stuffs power 7+ chips
Timothy Prickett Morgan over at the Register Has a nice article on IBM doubling up processors to fit into a single socket. In some servers this may push the limits of the number of thread Linux can...
View ArticlePowerPC timebase support in glibc 2.16
glibc 2.16, released in June, includes this gem: a __ppc_get_timebase() function, which gives Linux applications a convenient way to access PowerPC’s low-overhead time counter. The special timebase...
View ArticleFedora 18 for PowerPC Now Available
Fedora 18 for PowerPC is now available. The biggest PowerPC-specific feature appears to be the availability of POWER7-optimized packages (since development is driven by IBM and Red Hat, this shouldn’t...
View ArticleU-boot 2013.01 Released
Embedded Linux News has a summary of the recent U-boot 2013.01 release, which adds support for Freescale PowerPC-based SoCs, and throws out support for some ancient PowerPC chips as well.
View ArticleChina’s Standardized Instruction Set
According to EE Times, the Chinese goverment is considering standardizing industry and academia on a single instruction set. Various Chinese entities have worked with MIPS before, but they are looking...
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