Talk:Power ISA
Revision as of 20:41, 17 March 2019 by Olddellian (talk | contribs) (→Trying to place POWER4, 970 in the chart: new section)
Trying to place POWER4, 970 in the chart
Recently I was talking on Twitter about how OpenBSD has PowerPC support for Macs up to and in including the 970 (G5 in Apple-speak) although only in 32 bit mode. Since it's missing from the chart, I thought I'd try to add it. Progress so far:
- According to IBM, "The PPC 970 enhances the POWER4 instruction set with 162 Single Instruction/Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions that allow many processing elements to perform the same operations on different data in parallel." this is from a product overview of a BladeCenter JS20
- Wikipedia says POWER4 was PowerPC ISA v.2.00/01, but I'm still looking for the source for that.
Other possibly useful documents, just not for POWER4/970:
- Forget where I found the link to this document, but it might help place POWER5 in the chart? POWER5 Architecture
- Cell Broadband Engine Architecture and its first implementation
Also, someone smarter than me might be able to merge this info with the current chart; it's the -qarch documentation for IBM's XL Fortran compiler, listing which targets have different feature support. Documentation for newer XL Fortran compiler versions strips a lot of this out. Olddellian (talk) 20:41, 17 March 2019 (CDT)
