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0 pointszokier1y ago0 comments

I don't see how riscv can be anything but worse than Arm in this regard. With Arm at least Arm Holdings has some nominal power to steer towards sanity (devicetrees, systemready etc), with riscv it's again full freedom for vendors to make their own bespoke crap.

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gtirloni1y ago

> With Arm at least Arm Holdings has some nominal power to steer towards sanity

How's that working?

RISC-V at least can have a formal spec that companies can choose to follow. The profile mentioned in another comment is one way. Companies can say they're compliant with this or that profile and software can target it.

rwmj1y ago

Unfortunately this is true in general, but for servers there is some hope: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-server-platform

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