OpenRISC Gains Atomic Operations and Multicore Support 77
An anonymous reader writes "You might recall the Debian port that is coming to OpenRISC (which is by the way making good progress with 5000 packages building) — Olof, a developer on the OpenRISC project, recently posted a lengthy status update about what's going on with OpenRISC. A few highlights are upstreamed binutils support, multicore becoming a thing, atomic operations, and a new build system for System-on-Chips."
Re:What advantages? (Score:4, Funny)
"roll your own mini 8-bit core with opcodes customized for your app (this is not that hard"
Not that hard by Verilog standards. The sight of it tends to make software developers run in terror.