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It is a sad day in history to see both a RISC-V-related acronym and NDA used in the same sentence. The term oxymoron barely cuts it IMO. I thought that RISC-V u
by acka 1y ago
It is a sad day in history to see both a RISC-V-related acronym and NDA used in the same sentence. The term oxymoron barely cuts it IMO. I thought that RISC-V used to stand for open hardware and freedom, TIL.
- boredatoms 1y agoRiscv is an open ISA specification, not implementation Organizations are free to make closed and even secret implementations of it if they like
- ksec 1y agoThat was not what the RISC-V supporters promised.
- snvzz 1y agoMost "RISC-V supporter" do at the very least understand what RISC-V is, and what it isn't. I have never seen an actual RISC-V supporter confuse ISA and microarchitecture.
- boredatoms 1y agoWho/where are those people, because they seem very misinformed
- rwmj 1y agoThe RISC-V specs are all free to download and implement. Some (by no means all) implementations are proprietary. Red Hat (the company I work for) talks to all sorts of server vendors, x86, Arm, POWER, RISC-V all the time under NDA so we can find out what new products those vendors are developing before they are released, and have software ready in time. The software we write is all open sourced. This is nothing particular to do with RISC-V, and has nothing to do with the RISC-V ISA, nor with open sourcing of software.