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> Manpower is extremely limited And that's why this needs to be solved at a higher level than engineering. There's clearly ample investment into RISC-V - Tenst
by phendrenad2 2y ago
> Manpower is extremely limited
And that's why this needs to be solved at a higher level than engineering. There's clearly ample investment into RISC-V - Tenstorrent just raised $693 million. Convincing investors to throw hundreds of millions at "AI magic" is easy. Convincing them to throw $50k at a contractor to make a USB bootloader... that's a harder sell - even if that small investment would have a huge impact on the public perception of RISC-V overall.
I think this idea is wasted on "Hacker" News, I need to find "Tech Investor" News, but it doesn't seem to exist. :P
- snvzz 2y agoThis is a pointless discussion when the USB bootloader already exists, in the form of edk2. See my (two) replies multiple levels above. Of course, the RISC-V edk2 port is a funded effort. And of course, I am glad I could get the first mass-produced RISC-V SBC 2 years ago instead of now. Had they waited until the UEFI-based firmware was done rather than shipped them two years ago, it would have significantly delayed the entire RISC-V ecosystem.