[libre-riscv-dev] Reference OS

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Wed Feb 19 04:36:17 GMT 2020


On Wednesday, February 19, 2020, Scheming Pony <scheming-pony at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> Follow up questions:
>
> 1) I guess I am in some quantum space, but what processor *are* we
> building?


a hybrid  CPU-GPU-VPU.   http://libre-riscv.org/3d_gpu

  I thought RISC-V then I heard PowerPC.


both.  http://libre-riscv.org/openpower


> 2) There's also the BIOS...Open Firmware...?


no BIOS. u-boot.  thie is an SoC, not intel.  see linux-sunxi.org and look
up EGON boot ROM for the A20 if you aren't familiar with chainloading.

l.



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