Re:BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
by phkahler on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:00PM
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BOOM really needs to get compressed instruction support. Until that's in I would assume development has stalled since it's required to run precompiled Debian and Fedora packages.
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Re:BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
by nickik on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:04PM
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What? Because the feature you want is not there, development has stalled?
There is lots of useful things you can do without C. Also, it has not stalled:
Re:BOOM Open Source RISC-V Core Runs on Amazon EC2 F1 Instances
by phkahler on Thursday December 13, 2018 @08:13PM
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My wording was a bit harsh. The git repository hasn't been very active, but not dead.
The C extension is mentioned in that video as a priority but it sounds like some of the other priorities are being worked on (maybe there's funding for spectre mitigation work). Anyone who wants to use BOOM outside of research is going to need the C option because that's the standard for OSes. They said it's nice not to have to maintain a fork of Rocket Chip, the same will be true of not needing to recompile everything without C.
It is more active than I thought.