Linux Now Has Its First Open Source RISC-V Processor

Re:Linux Now Has Its First Open Source RISC-V Processor by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:19PM (#15424653)

Maybe I'm missing the relevant nexus between Linux, Open Source, and RISC-V, but I'm pretty sure BOOM [1] was already running Linux ~2 years ago.

[1] https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom

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Re:Linux Now Has Its First Open Source RISC-V Processor by _chris_ on Saturday October 07, 2017 @05:15PM (#15425740)

BOOM is built on top of rocket-chip, both going back to 2011-2012 at Berkeley. The rocket-chip devs graduated Berkeley and started SiFive.

SiFive still use, update, and commit back to the rocket-chip code base and have spent resources on verifying the rocket-chip code base and on integrating other industry IP into their branch of rocket-chip to fit their costumers' needs.

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Re:Linux Now Has Its First Open Source RISC-V Processor by tomcam on Saturday October 07, 2017 @08:30PM (#15426411)

Mad props to them. That's impressive and very community-minded.

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