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Re:The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched by pkaye on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:29PM (#24935366)
Isn't RISC-V just an open standard ISA. The hardware implementation might be closed source. Its still possible to but secure boot features on to an implementation.
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Re:The Heart of RISC-V Development Is Unmatched by samatman on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#24935408)
Sure. It makes the world I'd like to live in possible, it doesn't guarantee we'll get it.

But foundries will burn whatever chip you have the money to pay for. Having a robust open standard ISA lowers the barriers enough that I'm confident we'll see free-as-in-freedom CPUs and GPUs come out of the project.

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