A few days ago, I blogged about AMI joining OpenPOWER. Recently, there’s been some other activity in OpenPOWER.

IBM just announced SuperVessel, an OpenPOWER-based cloud for developers:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47082.wss
https://ptopenlab.com/cloudlabconsole/index.html
http://openpowerfoundation.org/press-releases/openpower-accelerates-open-innovation-with-new-member-products-and-free-development-cloud/

It appears the source code to the OpenPOWER firmware was released about a year ago. Luckily, some others have been blogging on OpenPOWER firmware already:
http://openpowerfoundation.org/press-releases/occ-firmware-code-is-now-open-source/
http://jk.ozlabs.org/blog/post/159/customising-openpower-firmware/
https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2014/07/17/openpower-firmware-up-on-github/
https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2014/12/23/more-openpower-firmware-code-released-occ/

I’m just learning about the OpenPOWER community, it’s been years since I’ve written PowerPC assembly, and that was OS-level stuff, I am not aware of current OpenPOWER firmware technology. I probably won’t have a lot of time to post blog entries next week, but but I’ll have some more on OpenPOWER firmware in future blog posts.