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On the one hand I sort of understand it, by not having a stable ISA you don't get tied down in past mistakes and can have really clever hardware innovations. Bu
by somat 1y ago
On the one hand I sort of understand it, by not having a stable ISA you don't get tied down in past mistakes and can have really clever hardware innovations. But on the other hand it leads to bullshit like this. where every hardware device is a special snowflake and effectively needs it's own unique driver.
Final thoughts, It's not perfect but I really appreciate AMD's more open stance that gives us this source. And to the absolute heroes who are able to take this big steaming linux centric turd and make it work on openbsd, huge salutes. well done.
However I do wish AMD would clean up their driver. Or at least settle on an ISA.
- almostgotcaught 1y ago> However I do wish AMD would clean up their driver. Or at least settle on an ISA. These two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other - drivers don't talk to the cores, which "run" the ISA, they talk to the command processors (which are RISCV or MIPS or some other uC) using the command packet protocol.
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