• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    20·
    5 months ago

    Open source people “cheering” for Broadcom and Qualcomm based chips? I’m horribly confused as to when the open source types decided they liked greedy, horrible, shitty companies?

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        21·
        5 months ago

        … when it is actually usable one day.

        The big problem of RISC-V is the fragmentation of the market, and it is not even a big market to start with.

          • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
            11·
            5 months ago

            What I mean is, given the open source nature of RISC V, if someone puts out a chip with a proprietary extension, isn’t it likely that there will be a rip off that does the same but in an alternative manner? Like how there’s tonnes of Raspberry Pi like boards available.

            • taanegl@beehaw.org
              2·
              5 months ago

              The RISC-V is an extensible ISA, so yes. All those vendor extensions are optional, when fabricating the processor, which can be replaced by other extensions over time.

              Both Intel and AMD have had vendor extensions in the designs that they no longer use, even ones that have been “retracted” (i.e whatever in the heck Intel is doing with their AVX extensions).

              But yeah, currently, there are a lot of proprietary extensions, which could still be declared as open hardware as well. So yeah.