[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 979] Implement C-based Power ISA decoder compiler

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Thu Sep 7 21:48:48 BST 2023


https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979

--- Comment #43 from Dmitry Selyutin <ghostmansd at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #41)
> https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=openpower-isa.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/
> libsvp64
> 
> sorry dmitry, can you please rename it to libpowerisa or libpower?
> or libopenpower or libopenpowerisa?
> 
> otherwise it implies that we are attempting to dominate and
> subsume the entirety of Power ISA which is Trademarked, and
> the OPF and IBM would have justification to jump on us from
> a very great height.
> 
> this is serious.  it is actually a Criminal Offense to take
> Trademarked material and "pass it off" as your own under
> a different brand.  It's called "Counterfeiting" and it's
> illegal (jail time).

Hm. I haven't thought about this aspect. OK then...

> please rename the library at your earliest convenience to include
> "power" or "openpower" in order to respect the Trademark.

How about libop? Or perhaps libopium, OpenPower Instruction
Universal-or-Unified M-something? I like op as prefix. But opisa sounds awful.

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