<story><title>IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bem94</author><text>I have so many questions:&lt;p&gt;- Where can I get the ISA specification?[1]&lt;p&gt;- Where can I get a compiler?&lt;p&gt;- Is there a link to the &amp;quot;softcore model&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;With RISC-V you can start very simple and small (micro-controller) and work your way up in understanding and implementation to a very large core (application class). POWER is a monster of an architecture, designed more for &amp;quot;big iron&amp;quot;. I guess that might limit the &amp;quot;hobbyist&amp;quot; factor RISC-V has.&lt;p&gt;1. This I think, all 1200 pages of it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-vers...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kop316</author><text>I own a Talos II (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&amp;#x2F;TALOSII&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.raptorcs.com&amp;#x2F;TALOSII&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) computer. It actually runs an official port of Debian (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.debian.org&amp;#x2F;PPC64&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wiki.debian.org&amp;#x2F;PPC64&lt;/a&gt;) on it, which includes a compiler.</text></comment>
<story><title>IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set</title><url>https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bem94</author><text>I have so many questions:&lt;p&gt;- Where can I get the ISA specification?[1]&lt;p&gt;- Where can I get a compiler?&lt;p&gt;- Is there a link to the &amp;quot;softcore model&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;With RISC-V you can start very simple and small (micro-controller) and work your way up in understanding and implementation to a very large core (application class). POWER is a monster of an architecture, designed more for &amp;quot;big iron&amp;quot;. I guess that might limit the &amp;quot;hobbyist&amp;quot; factor RISC-V has.&lt;p&gt;1. This I think, all 1200 pages of it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openpowerfoundation.org&amp;#x2F;?resource_lib=power-isa-vers...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blattimwind</author><text>PowerPC and POWER are relatively mainstream. It&amp;#x27;s supported by IBM XL, GCC, Clang and most major JITs (including luajit).</text></comment>