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Milk brags about their "proprietary extension". I understand that the vendors can do whatever they want, but that turns me off.
by bjoli 1y ago
Milk brags about their "proprietary extension". I understand that the vendors can do whatever they want, but that turns me off.
- pjmlp 1y agoProving the point that RISC-V isn't necessarly as open as it gets advocated for, versus the competition.
- bigyabai 1y agoVersus the competition? Modern x86 and ARM chipsets are not only proprietary from the ISA-up, they have the same proprietary extensions. "RISC chipset adds in proprietary CISC features" has been in my headlines so often that I assumed nobody cared. Helluva time to go up-in-arms, in Q3 2025.
- pjmlp 1y agoIn the end a small distinction that hardly matters when buying OEM boards.
- bigyabai 1y agoObviously. But that has nothing to do with what your comment said.
- pjmlp 1y agoUsually those boards come with RISC-V CPUs using proprietary extensions, for dismay of RISC-V FOSS advocates, it has everything to do with it.
- bigyabai 1y agoWell then you probably should have said "RISC-V isn't entirely open" rather than "as open" because now your responses make nearly no sense.