3arn0wl

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   by 3arn0wl 5y ago

   Arm deserve all that's coming to them. A generation ago, their forerunners - Acorn - were happy to take, use and make a profit from the work of American universities, yet when Berkeley asked to be able to use Arm's ISA for researc
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   by 3arn0wl 5y ago

   On RISC-V? Yes... Well sort of. There are people working on ports of Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse (I think) and I've seen some version of BSD working on SiFive's boards. Debian is said to be 95% complete. Ubuntu have also announced
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   by 3arn0wl 5y ago

   Actually... What they did, ten years ago, was build a much better Computer Engineering course!
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   by 3arn0wl 5y ago

   Sure, RISC-V designs can be open or not... And of course there's always the cost of fabbing. There're already designs freely available to use though, either as they are, or to build upon. And there are also now many other companie
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   by 3arn0wl 5y ago

   I'm really excited, to the point of distraction by the RISC-V ISA. Some people say that there's nothing new in it, but to my mind, they're missing the point : the Berkeley Four took what couldn't be appropriated for prof