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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone have something negative to say about ... by giomasce on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @02:58PM (#17611838)
It is not really something negative (because it will have to be seen in the future), but to me the biggest point about RISC-V is whether it will deliver its promise of eventually giving birth to completely open and high quality CPUs. The experiments so far are interesting and the people and firms working on it seems (to me) to be trustworthy, but the implementations so far are still lacking: the HiFive Unleashed board has a lot or proprietary IP inside and I am told that it has some stability problems. I understand and agree that things take time, but in the end we will have to see if a good and open ecosystem develops around RISC-V or not.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone have something negative to say about ... by jdoege on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @03:02PM (#17611876)
Moreover, no one is releasing the gate-level netlists nor the LEF and DEF nor mask data. Without those you can't have security unless you build your own.