“Most of them will fail complete without ever anybody hearing about them. But even the successful ones take a stumble or two,” says Torvalds.
  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    He’s being misquoted by the headline. He FEARS that it will make the same mistakes. Let’s be clear about RISC is here in the first place: an open-source hardware architecture. Anyone with enough money and willpower to fork it for their needs will do so. It’s anyone’s game still. He’s just simply saying that the same type of people who took over ARM and x86 are doomed to make the same mistakes. Not that RISC-V is bad.

    • bitfucker@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m being pedantic here but RISC-V is not a hardware architecture as in something that you can send to a manufacturer and get it made. It is an ISA. How you implement those ISA is up to you. Yes there are open implementations but I think it is important to distinguish it.

  • BobGnarley@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    RISC-V is the only shot we have at usable open source hardware. I really, really hope it takes off.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    smells like linus thinks there is going to be an ever increasing tech debt, and honestly, i think i agree with him on that one.

    RISCV is likely going to eventually overstep it’s role in someplaces, and bits and pieces of it will become archaic over time.

    The gap between hardware and software level abstraction is huge, and that’s really hard to fill properly. You just need a strict design criteria to get around that one.

    I’m personally excited to see where RISCV goes, but maybe what we truly need is a universal software level architecture that can be used on various different CPU architectures providing maximum flexibility.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      but maybe what we truly need is a universal software level architecture that can be used on various different CPU architectures providing maximum flexibility.

      I think that’s called Java.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Then again, if you don’t have the JVM/JRE, Java won’t work, so first you need to write it in another language and in such a way that it works across a bunch of different ARM and x86 processors.

    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialBEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Basically, his concern is that if they are not cooperating with software engineers that the product won’t be able to run AAA games.

      It’s more of a warning than a prediction.

            • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Not OP, but consider using FUTO Keyboard. It’s made by the group Louis Rossmann works with, and it has offline speech to text (no sending data to Google), swipe keyboard, and completions. It’s also source-available, which isn’t as good as open source, but you could examine the code and verify their claims if you wanted to.

              I’m using it and, while it’s not perfect, it’s way better than the open source Android keyboards with swiping that I’ve tried.