OpenSPARC
OpenSPARC Goals: “To significantly increase participation in processor architecture development and application design by making cutting-edge hardware IP freely available.” Getting the obvious Bart Simpson reference out of the way quickly (how long do you figure before they reword that first bullet point?), I’m wondering how someone like me could hack this? I can’t fab chips in my basement… yet. But Qemu emulates a SPARC. Is there an opportunity for SunSource there? An emulator does not need to be full speed to be useful. (via Smart Mobs).