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I like the idea of an open platform centered around an open standard - I don't know enough about the subject but I wonder if RISC-V is viable as a complete prod
by apatheticonion 3y ago
I like the idea of an open platform centered around an open standard - I don't know enough about the subject but I wonder if RISC-V is viable as a complete product?
Like, if we ignore the chip design aspects - is it guaranteed software compiled on one RISC-V chip will run on another RISC-V chip? (in the same way it does on ARM and amd64/x86?
What about hardware interoperability? PCI? UEFI/Boot semantics? Power management?
Who enforces that stuff for arm and x86 platforms?
- varjag 3y ago> What about hardware interoperability? PCI? UEFI/Boot semantics? Power management? Afraid I have bad news about ARM right there.
- apatheticonion 3y agoI'm interested in understanding and keeping up with this space - do you have any suggestions for resources to look at?
- snvzz 3y ago> What about hardware interoperability? PCI? UEFI/Boot semantics? Power management? Refer to the RISC-V platform spec (ongoing). It depends on other specs, some of which (like those related to the boot process) have already been ratified.
- apatheticonion 3y agoThat's amazing - does that mean it's more complete than arm as a platform offering? I don't think arm has anything standard around the boot process and vendors have various implementations