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> RISC-V is not tied to Qualcomm, so you can either choose a different partner or do it all yourself if you've got the necessary skills and resources. ISA is t
by ilyt 3y ago
> RISC-V is not tied to Qualcomm, so you can either choose a different partner or do it all yourself if you've got the necessary skills and resources.
ISA is the least important part in CPU. The hard part is having all drivers for the peripherals given chip has and knowing most of the chinese vendors it's straight to landfill after few years unless something becomes so popular community RE it.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y ago> ISA is the least important part in CPU It is essential though, so it's an important step towards having entirely open CPUs
- ilyt 3y agoProprietary ISA with open peripherals would be FAR better than other way around. Frankly the ISA part is easiest to change from OS kernel perspective. If "open" ISA comes with a bunch of blobs it's essentially exactly same situation as using ARM chip.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoThere's a HN link to https://pineapple-one.github.io/ https://pineapple-one.github.io/ on the front-page now. Is that of interest?