RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles. In contrast to most ISAs, the RISC-V ISA can be freely used for any purpose, permitting anyone to design, manufacture and sell RISC-V chips and software. While not the first open ISA, it is significant because it is designed to be useful in modern computerized devices such as warehouse-scale cloud computers, high-end mobile phones and the smallest embedded systems. Such uses demand that the designers consider both performance and power efficiency. The instruction set also has a substantial body of supporting software, which fixes a usual weakness of new instruction sets. The project began in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, but many contributors are volunteers and industry workers outside the university. The RISC-V ISA has been designed with small, fast, and low-power real-world implementations in mind,[2][3] but without over-architecting for a particular microarchitecture style.[3][4][5][6] As of May 2017, version 2.2 of the userspace ISA is fixed and the privileged ISA is available as draft version 1.10.
yea, ill stick with x86 until something bg comes around and competes with it
Alexander Bailey
Fuck off with this spam shit, it's borderline advertising
Eli Gonzalez
no i'm continuing some other user's general he made like a day or 2 ago.
Samuel Anderson
Does C compile seamlessly to this platform? I'm looking for alternatives to x86 and the whole dam ecosystem of niggering. What's the roadmap for many core architectures (procs > 16 cores)?
Logan Lopez
>Does C compile seamlessly to this platform? GCC I believe has been fully ported.
Any compatibility issues w/ various flavors of Linux OS or popular tools? Biggest issue people want to have answers about is compatibility. Everyone wants alternatives but there has to be compatibility. Marketing this needs to first and foremost address this. > Will i be able to use OS x,yz? > Will software incompatibilities exist? > If yes, if source is available can it be recompiled and this compatibility issue resolved?
Answer these questions and you will capture attention.
Adam Ramirez
>Will i be able to use OS x,yz? So far, I think the most developed one, or at least from the sound of it, might be freebsd wiki.freebsd.org/riscv >Will software incompatibilities exist Once a distro has full support for it, it should be able to run just about any software in the repos. >If yes, if source is available can it be recompiled and this compatibility issue resolved? All this software would be open source.
Yeah, you gotta solve fundamental problems like this before trying to market it further. Support major OS -> Support major tools -> Support major software applications. Did in the water until then.
Adrian Jenkins
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Landon Green
>you gotta solve >market it further I'm just some retard making a general thread on Sup Forums.
Jack Miller
kek
Hudson King
Hey rabbi, watcha doing?
Anthony Gomez
So when do you think lowRISC is gonna come out? The OP says this quarter! But when exactly?
Gabriel Foster
and you think getting it out to OS and tooling devs doesn't require marketing? like low level devs are all part of some super secret cabal that just magically monitors everything that's going on in the hardware space?
newsflash: devs get their info by browsing random blogs, "social networks", and boards (like Sup Forums) all the time, just like everyone else.
Luis Turner
>devs get their info from Sup Forums Now i'm laughing at the idea of some pajeet from Microsoft reading this board and seeing all of our "poo in loo" comments.
Jackson Thompson
Microsoft people definitely lurk around here from time to time
