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They’d need an actual chip to run it on or is it just simulated? I mean isn’t RISC-V still 5-10 years behind M series? Also do you think the they still maintai
by shjake 4y ago
They’d need an actual chip to run it on or is it just simulated? I mean isn’t RISC-V still 5-10 years behind M series?
Also do you think the they still maintain macOS ports for PowerPC?
- cpeterso 4y agoI doubt Apple still maintains macOS for PowerPC. Building for RISC-V would be to keep future options available, whereas PowerPC is a dead end. We might look for clues in any Apple contributions to LLVM and Darwin for RISC-V or PowerPC. I went searching if Darwin still supports PowerPC. I found a Reddit thread about compiling Rust code for Darwin PowerPC, but they only talk about old versions of Darwin: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qbok3d/how_difficult_is_it_to_add_powerpcappledarwin_as/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qbok3d/how_difficult_...
- shjake 4y agoI really doubt they have seriously considered porting macOS to RISC-v though. It shouldn’t take that long to port darwin to a new arch anyway. And when/IF RISC-V actually becomes even close to being competitive to ARM/x86 it will probably be very different than it is now.