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On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Pen-Yuan Hsing penyuanhsing@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry I wasn't clear. I was just wondering if the rhombus-tech page can be a "landing page" that I can forward people to. But if you think riscv.org is fine I can do that, too! That said, riscv.org probably doesn't emphasise the libre nature of it, does it?
permissive licenses being what they are.... no, true, it doesn't. libre is a very specific meaning, and the goal is to create a *libre* SoC.
ha, bit of irony for you: gaisler research released the LEON3 SPARCv8 core a number of years ago under the GPLv2, so that people could use it for "academic and research purposes", the expectation being that for "commercial" use, they would seek a license from gaisler because you can't mix GPLv2 source with proprietary hard macro source.
the irony / beauty is: by seeking out *specifically* hard macros even for DDR3 that are compatible with the GPL, no proprietary license is needed :)
so... the source code which implements SMP cache coherency for a multi-core LEON3... i can pull that out and use it :)
l.