OpenRISC Gains Atomic Operations and Multicore Support

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OpenRISC Gains Atomic Operations and Multicore Support 77

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:44AM from the now-that's-hardware-hacking dept.

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."

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Re:What advantages? (Score:4, Insightful)

by Alioth ( 221270 ) writes: <no@spam> on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @09:48AM (#46998657) Journal

MIPS may (or may not be) "open source", however it is not free to implement. Implement the latest MIPS ISA without a license agreement from MIPS and you'll be sued to smithereens. You won't be sued if you implement OpenRISC though.

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