[Discuss] lowRISC: fully open hardware systems

[Mario Gómez]

That would be great!

Oracle has been marginating all of their Free/Open source projects (like
OpenSPARC), It would be great to see any competing project in that area.
The last time that I attended one of their conferences, their salesmans
even have a "motto" in spanish that say's something like "Open Source is
bad".

Now that the OSHW community has a good momentum, lowRISC could be a great
opportunity to get more people involved than previous intiatives like
OpenSPARC.

Regards,
Mario.




On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Andrew Back <andrew at carrierdetect.com>
wrote:

> On 7 August 2014 04:52, Mario Gómez <mxgxw.alpha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I mean, in the philosophy... not it the technical specs...
>
> Well, Oracle ate Sun and it appears as though there haven't been any
> updates for some time, with the odd dead link on the website. Take
> from that what you will. In addition to which I'm not sure there is
> much of an OpenSPARC community — I can't remember if there are
> derivatives, it's a while since I looked. Then you also need a fairly
> expensive FPGA dev system to play with it.
>
> With lowRISC I'd fully expect there to be a very active community and
> updates, and to be able to target at least some minimal SoC to low
> cost FPGA dev boards.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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