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All of what you describe are not done, or guaranteed, by RISC-V. RISC-V only refers to the CPU cores, the same way Arm refers to the CPUs as well. Actually, Ar
by sweden 8y ago
All of what you describe are not done, or guaranteed, by RISC-V. RISC-V only refers to the CPU cores, the same way Arm refers to the CPUs as well.
Actually, Arm cores don't force any kind of proprietary board architectures or binary blobs in order to be manufactured and shipped. Why do people expect that this will change with RISC-V?
- dragontamer 8y agoAnd that's all this article is bringing attention to. Some people care about open-source, and they care quite strongly. I'm not necessarily part of open-boot or coreboot... but I at least understand their sentiment. For these OSS advocates, they really believe in controlling the full computer with fully open source hardware. They feel like calling RISC-V an "Open Source" core dillutes the term. At the end of the day, its just a blogpost on a popular OSS benchmarking website dedicated to the server market. RISC-V doesn't serve their purposes (yet), so that's all they're writing about. 99% of the Phoronix content is about Linux Benchmarks btw. So its not like they publish these internet politics issues too often.
- nickik 8y agoRISC-V is just an ISA but the foundation and all the people who have bought in have given some political power and dynamism into the movement that it didn't have before. Just the amount of people meeting and starting to work together on some of these issue makes RISC-V valuable. Its adoption in research will also lead to some nice stuff (and already has). So I agree with your core point but we when talking about RISC-V we should think about it more broadly.