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Offline Iggy

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Re: Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor
« on: October 09, 2017, 08:34:50 PM »
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C'mon, if anyone with the (legal, as well as technical) ability to do anything about it actually cared, AmigaOS would have been on ARM years ago, and now we'd all be happily using Raspberry Pis and Tinkerboards to run our systems.

Instead a few people choose to pay 20-100x more for boutique PowerPC systems.

A new ISA and ecosystem is all very nice, and RISC-V does appear to have some nice aspects indeed, but it's even more unlikely than ARM.

At least there is AROS and it's distributions.


At one time I supported the idea of an ISA shift to ARM for MorphOS, but thinking on it, X64 makes more sense If only so that we can have a good selection of boards with PCI-E expansion slots.
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Re: Linux Now Has its First Open Source RISC-V Processor
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2017, 10:25:20 PM »
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Unless of course you're considering feasibility or longevity.

Minor points.


Except that NXP, in the tradition started by Motorola, has long term availability programs.
And besides, five to ten years down the road, do you really think I'll want dated hardware?
"Not making any hard and fast rules means that the moderators can use their good judgment in moderation, and we think the results speak for themselves." - Amiga.org, terms of service

"You, got to stem the evil tide, and keep it on the the inside" - Rogers Waters

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Amiga! "Our appeal has become more selective"