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minus-squaretheshatterstone54linkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoWait, 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?
minus-squarewarmaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoYeah, that’s what I understood as well. As in, the ISA is the code, and the CPU is the binary.
minus-squareemergencyfood@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoYep. But even a closed-source CPU is good if it makes the architecture more mainstream.
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.