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Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86 (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Just a reminder the RISC-V architecture is not open source as many think it is only the instruction set is open source. We remain far from a truly open/libre hardware for now

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Sorry, but that is completely wrong. RISC-V is an ISA, nothing less, nothing more, and it is completely, 100% open-source. The licensing of the hardware implementations is a different matter, but that's outside of the scope of RISC-V. As I said, it is just an ISA.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

There's plenty of designs out there that you can load onto an FPGA or, funds permitting, send off to a fab to burn into silicon.