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Isn't open, but at least well-documented hardware one of the goals of RISC-V? The article complains a lot that the integrated hardware is horribly underdocument

• 5- 3y ago
  risc-v is an instruction set specification. it doesn't concern much beyond that, so there is nothing special about "risc-v hardware ", which contains many other components at vendor's discretion.
  • brucehoult 3y ago
    ... and often uses the same memory-mapped peripherals the same vendor used for their Arm or 8051 or whatever chips. Having good standard open IP for all that stuff would be great, but that's a different project than RISC-V.
• pjmlp 3y ago
  That is the myth, the reality it is only an instruction set, without the actual hardware, and even the ISA itself can be extended with OEM specific instructions.
  • dailykoder 3y ago
    You are right and it's probably as "bad" as you make it sound, but we've come a long way. One tiny step at a time. Maybe one day full open hardware will make it to the mainstream. Let's just dream a bit (and work on it) Edit: I am aware tho, that there will always be some vendor who just copy pastes the open hardware and sells it for cheaper, because they don't have that much R&D cost. And restricting that on whatever level (government, etc) sounds even worse.
    • Max-q 3y ago
      It's always good to dream, but in silicon implementation and production, millions and billions are spent, so having anybody sharing that I think is not very likely. It's a totally different ballgame than software. But let's hope things change in the future so that this dream can come true.