RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC

Re:RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC by nine_k on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:18PM (#13429918)

There's a lot of embedded hardware where running Linux makes sense but running a browser does not. This market may be even larger than the desktop market.

OTOH this rules out laptops that OP wanted. OT3rdH ARM started with devices like these in mind, but went all the way to pretty powerful, desktop-comparable machines like current smartphones.

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Re:RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC by progman on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:33PM (#13430047)

Just imagine that the Raspberry Pi Foundation could be interested to switch from ARM to R5. They could actually design and produce their own R5.

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Re:RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC by nine_k on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @03:45PM (#13430128)

I can imagine that government agencies of various countries would be quite interested in a completely open, inspectable, patent-unencumbered, hardware design. Gives you a bit of certainty that your key infrastructure won't be remotely disrupted by a hidden silicon circuit.

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Re:RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC by nickik on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:57PM (#13431669)

India elected RISC-V as the new standard and they have multible projects around it.

Open ISA and open hardware should be a major security concern for most countries.

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Re:RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC by zhemao on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @06:24PM (#13431479)

In fact, some people who were involved in the Raspberry Pi project are now working on exactly that, a RISC-V-based single-board computer.

http://www.lowrisc.org/

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