MIPS Becomes RISC-V

Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:17PM (#26390918)

Throwing out diversity because you don't see any immediate benefit is a great way to not have it when a different problem does show up.

I don't know about unique way, but MIPS certainly was good at embedded; there's plenty of networking gear using it.

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by capableweb on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:28PM (#26391064)

> MIPS certainly was good at embedded

As far as I understand, it's not that MIPS is the best at embedded, it's just that it's cheaper to sell as the license cost is non-existing and good support already exists in kernels and so on.

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by MaxBarraclough on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:56PM (#26392201)

What are the criteria for 'best'?

If MIPS offered adequate performance and features, good performance-per-watt, and a competitive licence fee, and if none of its competitors could beat it, doesn't that count as 'best'?

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday March 08, 2021 @07:30PM (#26393662)

> it's not that MIPS is the best at embedded, it's just that it's cheaper to sell

That sounds a lot like MIPS being the best at embedded. Not high-end, sure, but a lot of embedded is "what is the cheapest processor that can run Linux?"

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Re:MIPS Becomes RISC-V by jnwatson on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:53PM (#26391379)

PowerPC was the dominant processor in telecom equipment as far as I was aware. Perhaps the low end went MIPS.

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