[libre-riscv-dev] power pc
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at lkcl.net
Wed Oct 23 15:35:29 BST 2019
On Wednesday, October 23, 2019, Michael Pham <pham.michael.98 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> Well, it is called POWER after all hahaha ;)
:)
> Ok my lame jokes aside, POWER, to my knowledge has never been used
> embedded or low power scenarios. It's mostly used in processing heavy
> work, I think?
>
Probably simply because nobody considered it, and you can always get ARM
Cortex or just use 8051 (if you are in china).
The patent licensing is something that has always scared companies away,
hence why the automatic grant (if compliant) is so important.
https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
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