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Anther ISA like ARM? It seems pretty palatable to just about everyone not academic.
by NetMageSCW 2mo ago
Anther ISA like ARM? It seems pretty palatable to just about everyone not academic.
- duskwuff 2mo agoThe ARM ISAs are not free to implement. ARM holds patents relevant to the ISA.
- phendrenad2 2mo agoUntil the patents expire, which many have already.
- monocasa 2mo agoThe aarch64 stuff still has some time, particularly if you want stuff like virtualization.
- IshKebab 2mo agoYou're vastly underestimating the amount of work that has gone into RISC-V that would need to be redone. It's not just a spec. There's an absolute mountain of software and hardware supporting it.
- __d 2mo agoSure. But … so was Linux, or Firefox, or GNOME or KDE, etc. Even RISC-V itself was adopted by volunteers and supported by toolchains, and then kernels, and applications. The amount of work is less a problem than the motivation. And motivation really just depends on recognizing that the status quo sucks, but is fixable.