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The POWER ISA is the specification for how POWER conformant processors are to behave.  It dictates the machine instructions available, and exactly how they are to process given data.
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'''Power ISA''' (not to be confused with IBM POWER ISA) is the specification for how Power architecture processors are to behave.  It dictates the machine instructions available, and exactly how they are to process given data.
  
There are two primary versions of the POWER ISA that are of interest to [[PowerNV|PowerNV]] platforms:
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There are two primary versions of the Power ISA that are of interest to [[PowerNV|PowerNV]] platforms:
 
* [[:File:PowerISA_V2.07_PUBLIC.pdf|Version 2.07]] ([[POWER8|POWER8]] / [[POWER8E|POWER8E]])
 
* [[:File:PowerISA_V2.07_PUBLIC.pdf|Version 2.07]] ([[POWER8|POWER8]] / [[POWER8E|POWER8E]])
 
* [[:File:PowerISA_public.v3.0B.pdf|Version 3.0B]] ([[POWER9|POWER9]])
 
* [[:File:PowerISA_public.v3.0B.pdf|Version 3.0B]] ([[POWER9|POWER9]])

Revision as of 22:41, 19 January 2018

Power ISA (not to be confused with IBM POWER ISA) is the specification for how Power architecture processors are to behave. It dictates the machine instructions available, and exactly how they are to process given data.

There are two primary versions of the Power ISA that are of interest to PowerNV platforms:

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