[$] Resurrecting the SuperH architecture

Processor architectures are far from trivial; untold millions ofdollars and many thousands of hours have likely gone into the creationand refinement of the x86 and ARM architectures that dominate theCPUs in Linux boxes today. But that does not mean that x86 and ARM are the onlyarchitectures of value, as Jeff Dionne, Rob Landley, and ShumpeiKawasaki illustrated in their LinuxCon Japan session "Turtles all theway down: running Linux on open hardware." The team has been workingon breathing new life into a somewhat older architecture that offerscomparable performance to many common system-on-chip (SoC)designs-and whichcan be produced as open hardware.

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