RISC-V: More Than a Core

Re:RISC-V: More Than a Core by nickik on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:36AM (#18227701)

This is a pretty reductive analysis compared to the massive amounts of activity in RISC-V

- SiFive is a costume silicon company, and they have development platforms for the nodes their working with. It makes little sense for them to push this far beyond in terms of dev boards. Overall SiFive is doing much for Software and RISC-V Standard.

- BOOM was never a large open source project, but rather the work of a single grad student and he is a student no more. However there are certain changes coming from Esperanto and there was also more tapeouts. See Hot Chips 30 talk BROOM.

* The LowRisc effort has been slow. One of the main people who worked on it is working on the LLVM compiler and the LowRisc project gets some amount of money for that work.

There are way to many project to list here and there I don't know what you are interested in doing.

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Re:RISC-V: More Than a Core by chubs on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:58AM (#18256036)

Thanks for the response! I didn't realise BOOM was just one person. And i did notice that LowRisc has a lot of LLVM-related commits. Perhaps i've got the wrong end of the stick here. Maybe RISC-V is more 'subterranean' than is obvious, due to its embedded aims. Have a good one, thanks for the explanation :)

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