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Re:RISC-V Stumbling Blocks by almindor on Thursday January 02, 2020 @10:19AM (#21936021)
This is untrue. Hifive1 supports the privileged instructuons and comes with machine mode and user mode. Cost is ~50$
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Re:RISC-V Stumbling Blocks by zozbot234 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:36AM (#21936831)
Linux and other UNIX-like systems (with virtual address space and the like) need Supervisor mode (S-mode), not just U+M mode.
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