Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Dec 2007 22:49 UTC
Sun Microsystems is releasing the specifications of its new UltraSPARC T2 processor, formally code named Niagara 2, to the open-source community Dec. 12, as part of the company's ongoing effort to build more of a community around its signature chip. The goal of releasing Niagara 2 into the open-source community through the General Public License is to create a larger community around the chip and increase the number of operating systems and applications that can use the processor, said Shrenik Mehta, senior director for Fronted Technologies and the OpenSPARC Program at Sun. In 2005, the company released the specification for the UltraSPARC T1 processor and the designs have been downloaded 6500 times since then, Mehta said.
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2007-08-21
I was talking about debugging on the hardware level eg: t northbridge chip the company I worked for used a few years back shipped with a serious data corruption bug that occured whenever a bus mastering over PCI occured. It took years to track down, and was never truely gotten rid of, only patched. Had the source for the chip been available, then possibly a lot of the workaround and reverse engineering necessary for the patches could have been avoided, possibly.
Edited 2007-12-12 14:30