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If there is a downfall of RISCV, it's going to be the myriad of sub-architectures and their weird naming schemes, with an added layer of marketing drones muddyi
by ur-whale 3y ago
If there is a downfall of RISCV, it's going to be the myriad of sub-architectures and their weird naming schemes, with an added layer of marketing drones muddying up the waters even further.
This is going to confuse the hell out of the potential customer base and it would be a crying shame, wasting a golden opportunity to get out of the oxygen-choking clutches of proprietary ISA vendors (who at this point are purely rent-seeking and add exactly zero actual economic value to the ecosystem).
- 15155 3y agoI don't think so, in practice since atomics (on single-core systems especially) and floats can easily be emulated. If larger, more-incompatible extensions become commonplace, possibly.
- bee_rider 3y agoI mean, in the very least the proprietary ISA vendors provide the service of selecting what extensions are added. If you think too many extensions will take down RISC-V, that seems to have value.
- panick21_ 3y agoRISC-V will do the same thing. That's what profiles and even further platforms will provide. Most software (the large investment) will target these profiles. Not following the profiles will be possible but will cause issues.
- snvzz 3y agoNot since RISC-V Profiles[0]. 0. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/releases https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/releases