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Mostly have a hope of having a bootloader process that doesn't hinge on binaries. I mean at some level I may have to, but it's really annoying I can't move an i
by bfuclusion 6y ago
Mostly have a hope of having a bootloader process that doesn't hinge on binaries. I mean at some level I may have to, but it's really annoying I can't move an image from machine to machine even though the arch is all the same.
- klelatti 6y agoBut that's not an ARM issue is it? PI has strange boot by GPU but issue is SoC implementation I think not CPU architecture.
- bfuclusion 6y agoRight, it's not CPU arch, but there's a much higher chance of having the entire thing open arch if the CPU is. I expect the probability of reaching a de-facto "standard" SoC to be much higher in RISC-V and I'll take the pain of being the early adopter.
- pjmlp 6y agoMost likely that board would be using RISC-V extensions, so no juice.
- klelatti 6y agoI have a lot of sympathy but fear that RISC-V will lead to even more fragmentation than we see with ARM - eg proprietary extensions. PC standardisation is largely due to the level of control that a couple of dominant vendors have not due to the status of the IP in the core.
- nix23 6y ago>I have a lot of sympathy but fear that RISC-V will lead to even more fragmentation than we see with ARM Don't fear change, it's a cool thing.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y agoIf risc-v ends up fragmented then it will eventually evolve to a couple main vendors having a good level of compatibility between them and then the market will just agree to include those. Whatever the majority uses.