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We might as well use an unencumbered ISA as well, like RISC-V. I'm hopeful that that project will take off. It seems to be doing quite well so far. There is
by wyager 10y ago
We might as well use an unencumbered ISA as well, like RISC-V. I'm hopeful that that project will take off. It seems to be doing quite well so far. There is still an uncomfortable amount of proprietary junk and questionable hardware modules in the ARM world as well, even if it's a lot easier to get a plain SoC and turn it into a computer.
- mindcrime 10y agoYep. I'm actually really excited to get my hands on a Pulpino[0], just because it's based on RISC-V. Everytime this topic comes up, I flash back to "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing"[1] and think "we can't let computing become totally locked down". Hence I'm always interested in finding ways to support more open platforms, and something like an open ISA like RISC-V seems like an important element of that. [0]: http://www.pulp-platform.org/ http://www.pulp-platform.org/ [1]: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
- wolfgke 10y ago> Everytime this topic comes up, I flash back to "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing" [http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html] Don't forget the sequel Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computers: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6itfUUsoQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT6itfUUsoQ