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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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