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It’s a trade off, for sure. By using optional extensions, you encourage adoption in the embedded space. But if they’re not part of the base spec, good luck gett
by colejohnson66 6y ago
It’s a trade off, for sure. By using optional extensions, you encourage adoption in the embedded space. But if they’re not part of the base spec, good luck getting mainstream adoption through a RISC-V based desktop computer. The big problem is that people are claiming RISC-V to be the processor that’ll take over the world while ignoring that it can’t if the base spec is too limiting.
- nickik 6y agoThat's why you have profiles, nobody expects the base spec to take over the desktop world. However, RV64GC is a perfectly fine base profile for desktop computing. Its not yet complete and eventually for desktop a more extended profile will be needed, but that profile will be the standard that all open source distros will build around, just as now RV64GC is the standard profile. I don't understand why you even think the base spec should cover all things need for desktop, that was never the intention. In fact it was exactly not the intention. RISC-V ecosystem explicit goal is to work form the smallest embedded core, to the largest super computer.