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RISC-V is getting quite the ecosystem, though. IIRC, an effort made by Western Digital has made it possible to cross-compile stuff for RISC-V. Debian works ju
by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
RISC-V is getting quite the ecosystem, though.
IIRC, an effort made by Western Digital has made it possible to cross-compile stuff for RISC-V.
Debian works just fine on RISC-V silicon. Right now the big thing seems to be getting real-time, hardware-supported JavaScript processing working so that the modern web works on it well.
- tambourine_man 8y ago>real-time, hardware-supported JavaScript processing You mean JIT, right? The benefits of being interpreted falls flat when, in practice, everyone needs to run a highly tuned just in time compiler.
- HeWhoLurksLate 8y agoYes, that. Words were failing me, as was Google.
- tyingq 8y agoThe cross compiler looks like it was mostly contributions from SiFive, not WD. WD uses it, and references it.