From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.genesippc.com (mithrandir.softwarenexus.net [66.98.186.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B2C679E1 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:44:56 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <453E34FB.3030209@genesi-usa.com> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:44:59 +0200 From: Matt Sealey MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: [PATCH] General CHRP/MPC5K2 Platform and drivers support - to comment References: <453771E5.4090808@bplan-gmbh.de> <77AD49CA-69CB-4ADA-B8F3-3BC3A066BCF9@kernel.crashing.org> <453884F5.4000804@bplan-gmbh.de> <122A4E06-B8A6-4256-B96E-3811EA93EA25@kernel.crashing.org> <453B6A84.3050209@bplan-gmbh.de> <1161585371.10524.444.camel@localhost.localdomain> <453CD615.4050401@genesi-usa.com> <17725.18623.768768.438157@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <17725.18623.768768.438157@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Paul Mackerras wrote: > Matt Sealey writes: > > "PowerPC" is the name of the instruction set architecture, "POWER" is > the name of some specific implementations of the PowerPC architecture > made by a certain large multinational computer company. Unless you're > talking about the really really old ISA that was the predecessor of > PowerPC, that is. :) http://www.power.org/news/articles/new_brand/#isa I'm talking about the one they consolidated from all the different specs Freescale, AMCC and IBM had about what makes a PowerPC processor. Since POWER is part of it and it's all Power.org now.. they seem to have changed the name. I don't think they have actually added anything new, that wasn't there before, just consolidated it. You won't seen an IBM chip with SPE or VLE unless they license the gaggle of patents Freescale have on those units, maybe.. but there is always a possibility. All new chips are being called Power (not POWER). -- Matt Sealey Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations