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> Annoyingly this chip lacks the Compressed (RVC) extension, making it incompatible with all existing Linux distros. These will either have to be recompiled wit
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Annoyingly this chip lacks the Compressed (RVC) extension, making it incompatible with all existing Linux distros. These will either have to be recompiled without any Compressed instructions (which increases I-cache pressure on other CPUs that do support it), or we'll need to ship two versions of everything.
Perhaps ARM actually did have a point with their "FUD" campaign against RISC-V:
> https://archive.is/SkiH0 https://archive.is/SkiH0
(EDIT: in particular, consider point 3).
- ajross 8y agoAnd how many mutually incompatible instruction sets have been shipped under the ARM branding? I mean, glass houses and all.
- masklinn 8y agoOTOH Arch provides 29 different ARM packages…
- nickik 8y agoNot really, this is simply a case where the Shakti people were so early that the standard simply wasted defined yet, it was not even clear when how things would be standardized.