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> RISCV fragmentation hell that ARM used to suffer from Does "fragmentation hell" refer to Age Old problem of massive incompatibility in the Linux codebase, or
by aseipp 2y ago
> RISCV fragmentation hell that ARM used to suffer from
Does "fragmentation hell" refer to Age Old problem of massive incompatibility in the Linux codebase, or the more "modern" problem people refer to which is the problem of device trees and old kernel support for peripheral drivers? Because you can rest assured that this majestic process will not be changed at all for RISC-V devices. You will still be fed plenty of junkware that will require an unsupported kernels with blobs. The ISA isn't going to change the strategy of the hardware manufacturers.
- starspangled 2y agoNeither. It refers to proliferation of incompatible extensions that plagued ARM. Most well known one was hf incompatibility, but there were others too.