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I love that RISC-V is starting to take off! I'm curious about standardization of the rest of the system - the way x86 operating systems more or less work on an
by nfriedly 4y ago
I love that RISC-V is starting to take off!
I'm curious about standardization of the rest of the system - the way x86 operating systems more or less work on any x86 machine, whereas ARM seems to basically require a device-specific OS image for every single device. Is there any work going into addressing that and making RISK-V more like x86 and less like ARM systems?
- snvzz 4y agoYes. ISA profiles (like RVA22) and platform profiles[0]. RISC-V is in a much better position than ARM and x86 already, because this is well underway and the boot specs have been available for years now. In ARM, there was too little, too late. Most vendors do not follow the relevant specs. As for the PC, the platform became so by accident (IBM PC clones happened) and there's of course a serious amount of historical cruft. 0. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-platform-specs/blob/main/riscv-platform-spec.adoc https://github.com/riscv/riscv-platform-specs/blob/main/risc...
- nfriedly 4y agoCool, thank you for the info!