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Comment by Palomides

7 years ago

you can get a nice, complete POWER9 desktop tower for $2,364.99

https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/TLSDS3/intro.html

Probably more open, too.

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Palomides

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nickpsecurity  7 years ago

You can download a lot of the RISC-V's source to use in FPGA's or your own hardware. Nobody has given me a link to the same for POWER9. There's also a lower risk of getting patent sued for selling RISC-V versus IBM's I.P.. I'd say POWER9 is nowhere near as open as the RISC-V offering. It's "open" like OpenVMS: using the word to get dollars more than maximizing openness.

  • Palomides  7 years ago

    I meant open regarding the hardware, bootloader, etc., but it seems like sifive has released more code since I last looked and you can now bring up a board without any blobs.

    And yeah, we won't be seeing openpower on FPGAs anytime soon.