How open is OpenPOWER?
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OpenPOWER exposes the ISA (Power ISA v3.0) and most firmware on GitHub, with Hostboot/Skiboot/Petitboot available to inspect and build; Fedora on little-endian POWER is over 99% complete (about 630 missing binary RPMs of ~190,000). Raptor ships full Talos/Blackbird schematics and an open FPGA power sequencer bitstream; management firmware often uses OpenBMC. A softcore called Microwatt is VHDL, lacks FPU and supervisor state so it cannot run Linux yet, but it simulates under GHDL and can be synthesized to FPGAs; OpenCAPI and OMI for coherent accelerators and serial memory are also public.
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- 0:00Intro
- 1:24History
- 2:23OpenPOWER Foundation
- 5:02OpenPOWER Hardware
- 7:12OpenBMC
- 10:36Other components
- 12:20Open OS
- 13:30Micro Boat
- 15:14Demo
- 18:40OpenRAM Interface
- 20:28Whats next
- 22:06Questions
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