Linux toolkit offers open design

The 970MP is available as both a toolkit for developers and as a reference design for all members preferring to make their own products.

Power.org has released the Power Architecture Linux Developer Toolkit and Reference Platform, 970MP Edition.

The offering helps members and their customers lower the cost of development and accelerate their products' time to market.

Based on the Power Architecture dual-socket 2.5GHz dual-core 970MP reference platform with 8 DDR2 667MHz DIMM slots, this offering is available as both a high-performance toolkit for developers and as a reference design for all members preferring to make their own products.

Kaveh Massoudian, Program Director of Systems Architecture at IBM said "We have shown that through real collaborative innovation projects of tangible value we can deliver all elements of the open system to the hardware and software developer community".

All elements of the system's design are open, including specifications and schematics, firmware source code, the XEN hypervisor source code, and the Linux kernel code, allowing developers to create an optimal solution for their applications.

Power.org members have full access to these elements of the design at no cost.

Manufactured toolkits will also be made available to SW developers with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed at a competitive price.

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