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Re:XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Ar... by stffrdhrn on Monday July 05, 2021 @10:23PM (#27743666)
The riscv kernel maintainer is not interested in maintaining many different configs for many different SoC. So that is one effort to avoid fragmentation. If you look at the riscv config tree we can see about 5 configs:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Compare this to the ARM tree there are a few more:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Source: https://github.com/esmil/linux/pull/6#issuecomment-844135991

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