Warning: Some posts on this platform may contain adult material intended for mature audiences only. Viewer discretion is advised. By clicking ‘Continue’, you confirm that you are 18 years or older and consent to viewing explicit content.
Obligatory reading: “RISC-V is not an “open-source processor””. I was, like most others, under the impression that RISC-V was an open source CPU. So, this is an important distinction.
Wait, so the RISC-V instruction set is open source, but the implementations of these (aka the actual CPUs) may or may not be opensource at discretion of the manufacturers/vendors?
Obligatory reading: “RISC-V is not an “open-source processor””. I was, like most others, under the impression that RISC-V was an open source CPU. So, this is an important distinction.
Wait, so the RISC-V instruction set is open source, but the implementations of these (aka the actual CPUs) may or may not be opensource at discretion of the manufacturers/vendors?
Yeah, that’s what I understood as well. As in, the ISA is the code, and the CPU is the binary.
Yep. But even a closed-source CPU is good if it makes the architecture more mainstream.