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This is so cool - I'd like an open source CPU in my next phone please! (Of course, I would also like it to be fast, so that will probably not happen in the nex
by wmertens 4y ago
This is so cool - I'd like an open source CPU in my next phone please!
(Of course, I would also like it to be fast, so that will probably not happen in the next 5 years)
The article doesn't say if their port is also open source. There's a blog post here but I don't see any patches. https://riscv.org/blog/2021/11/how-alibaba-is-porting-risc-v-to-the-android-os-guoyin-chen-alibaba/ https://riscv.org/blog/2021/11/how-alibaba-is-porting-risc-v...
- Narishma 4y ago> I'd like an open source CPU in my next phone please! Just because it's RISC-V doesn't mean the CPU is open source.
- usrn 4y agoYeah. It's not licensed under the GPL or anything like that. I'm not sure it's as good as people seem to think.
- monocasa 4y agoAliBaba has been open sourcing their designs though. AFAIK, this work is mainly against their XuanTie C910 cores that have the source published here: https://github.com/T-head-Semi/openc910 https://github.com/T-head-Semi/openc910
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoNot all RISC-V ends up open, but it has better odds than anything else.
- shakna 4y agoI think this [0] is their Android port. You'll also find four RISC-V cores under that account that Alibaba open sourced near the end of last year. [0] https://github.com/T-head-Semi/riscv-aosp https://github.com/T-head-Semi/riscv-aosp