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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: News?
« on: July 28, 2022, 07:25:35 pm »
>>This all solely due to IBM's poor decision to close parts of the POWER10 platform, it's quite sad.
Re: those blobs, based on GITHUB links from Twitter post (listed below), seem to be related to non-IBM components; very possible IBM is not allowed to make the source code available.
PCIe I/O provided by Synopsis: "ricmata and op-jenkins Synopsys firmware 2.04p fixes DFE slicer calibration"
https://github.com/open-power/hcode/blob/master-p10/import/chips/p10/procedures/ppe/iop/
https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/interface-ip/pci-express/pci-express-5.html
https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=dwc_pcie5_phy
DDIMM memory buffer "Explorer" firmware provided by Microsemi:
https://github.com/open-power/ocmb-explorer-fw/
https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/1244316-smc-1000-8x25g-smart-memory-controller
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14706/microchip-announces-dram-controller-for-opencapi-memory-interface
Disappointing for sure, and may not be able to change going forward.
Re: those blobs, based on GITHUB links from Twitter post (listed below), seem to be related to non-IBM components; very possible IBM is not allowed to make the source code available.
PCIe I/O provided by Synopsis: "ricmata and op-jenkins Synopsys firmware 2.04p fixes DFE slicer calibration"
https://github.com/open-power/hcode/blob/master-p10/import/chips/p10/procedures/ppe/iop/
https://www.synopsys.com/designware-ip/interface-ip/pci-express/pci-express-5.html
https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=dwc_pcie5_phy
DDIMM memory buffer "Explorer" firmware provided by Microsemi:
https://github.com/open-power/ocmb-explorer-fw/
https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/1244316-smc-1000-8x25g-smart-memory-controller
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14706/microchip-announces-dram-controller-for-opencapi-memory-interface
Disappointing for sure, and may not be able to change going forward.