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MIPS Processor ISA To Be Open-Sourced In 2019
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Originally posted by onicsis View PostTo late. POWER it's already hier. Maybe MIPS it's more suited for embedded systems.
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This is progress from IBM forcing Intel to license the x86 ISA to AMD/VIA. ARM was freely license-able by anyone who had the cash. Now we have open ISAs and a few open cores, but like others have said, you still need someone to fab the chip or a very expensive FPGA to run it on. Interesting days* ahead for competing ISAs, however entrenched they may be.Last edited by audir8; 17 December 2018, 08:36 PM.
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Originally posted by uid313 View PostGreat!
About time!
I wish this happened much sooner.
It feels like it is a desperate move out of fear to fade into irrelevance with the arrival of RISC-V which is gaining momentum. I wish they had done this long ago out of own free will instead.
If they did it 10 years earlier they would get a much better position than they are today.
Just like Linux won't exist if Minix was licensed in BSD.
Nowadays even my router is running on Cortex
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Originally posted by zxy_thf View PostJust like Linux won't exist if Minix was licensed in BSD.
Minix could have been licensed under BSD or GPL or whatever, that wouldn't change a thing. It was designed to be simple and easy to understand for students, not to be a full-featured OS for real applications, which is what Linux was started for.
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Originally posted by jacob View Post
Linux exists because Minix was too limited to be a useful OS. Linus wanted a 32-bit, protected mode, multitasking OS with memory protection; there was Minix which didn't do much, there was OS/2 which didn't do much either, and there were the various Unices that were outlandishly expensive and didn't run well (or at all) on common hardware.
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Originally posted by Tomin View Post
Minix would have been forked and Linux as we know it now wouldn't have existed. That Minix fork would have the features we now see in Linux. That's my guess. Although Linus had another reason: he liked monolithic kernel better.
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MIPS64 running running great in my Octanes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU_RV8uoTIo and Origin 200: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVNT6FNPc7o
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Originally posted by jacob View PostLinux *is* a fork of Minix, or at least was in its early days. What you describe is exactly how it went. Yes, Linus prefers monolithic/hybrid kernels to microkernels so that was one of the first major changes he implemented.
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