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Re:RISC-V isn’t as interesting as you think by ajanicij on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:35PM (#26003900)
I see so many comments here about RISC-V fragmentation. This is not my expertise, so correct me if I am wrong, but if this means that the particular RISC-V CPU has to be able to execute some instruction, from what I understand the RISC-V designers expect to happen is missing instructions will be implemented in software.

So if the CPU runs into an instruction that it doesn't understand, this will trigger a missing instruction trap and software can implement the instruction. Fragmentation problem solved, no?

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