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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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[–] exu@feditown.com 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Only the core part of the ISA is open source. Vendors are free to add whatever proprietary extensions they want and sell the resulting CPU.

You might get such a CPU to boot, but getting all functionality might be the same fight it is with arm CPUs currently.

[–] ricdeh@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

I'll say to you what I said to the other commentor: RISC-V is an ISA, nothing less, nothing more, and it is 100% open-source. It is not trying to be anything else. Yes, hardware implementations from processor vendors can have different licensing and be proprietary, but that is not the fault of RISC-V, nor does that have anything else to do with it. RISC-V, as an ISA, and only an ISA, is completely open-source and not liable for the bs of OEMs.