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U-boot 2013.01 Released 22 Jan 2013 | 11:30 pm
Embedded Linux News has a summary of the recent U-boot 2013.01 release, which adds support for Freescale PowerPC-based SoCs, and throws out support for some ancient PowerPC chips as well.
Fedora 18 for PowerPC Now Available 22 Jan 2013 | 11:25 pm
Fedora 18 for PowerPC is now available. The biggest PowerPC-specific feature appears to be the availability of POWER7-optimized packages (since development is driven by IBM and Red Hat, this shouldn’t...
PowerPC timebase support in glibc 2.16 29 Sep 2012 | 03:20 am
glibc 2.16, released in June, includes this gem: a __ppc_get_timebase() function, which gives Linux applications a convenient way to access PowerPC’s low-overhead time counter. The special timebase re...
IBM takes a que from Oreo and double stuffs power 7+ chips 5 Sep 2012 | 11:28 pm
Timothy Prickett Morgan over at the Register Has a nice article on IBM doubling up processors to fit into a single socket. In some servers this may push the limits of the number of thread Linux can ha...
Curiosity is based on PowerPC 7 Aug 2012 | 07:32 am
of interest… Nasa’s Curiosity rover is PowerPC based. It has two identical computers using the RAD750 CPU .
PowerPC Android Development Resumes 27 Jul 2012 | 05:09 am
Almost two years ago, Mentor Graphics released a PowerPC port of Android (the 1.6 “Donut” release). It appears they have just released a 2.3 “Gingerbread” port as well, with not much more information ...
IBM to give each core 10MB of L3 cache (80MB total) on Power 7+ and more . 17 Jul 2012 | 02:34 am
Author Timothy Prickett Morgan over at the wonderful site The Register has saved us from doing a lot of work by doing some intelligence analysis of IBM’s roadmaps. Highlights include a die shrink to 3...
Freescale’s Network Division Adopting ARM 20 Jun 2012 | 01:59 am
Freescale’s network processor division has announced it will begin offering ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) products for networking applications. Although Freescale has offered the i.MX series of ARM-b...
Fedora 17 for PowerPC 18 Jun 2012 | 04:04 am
The IBM- and Red Hat-dominated development team has announced the release of Fedora 17 for PowerPC. It has been tested primarily on IBM POWER7 hardware, but even 32-bit binaries have been made availab...
China’s Standardized Instruction Set 1 May 2012 | 04:51 am
According to EE Times, the Chinese goverment is considering standardizing industry and academia on a single instruction set. Various Chinese entities have worked with MIPS before, but they are looking...
