Re:RISC-V Public review for standard extensions Zc
by bjourne on Saturday October 15, 2022 @09:18AM
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It's a problem because if you are a vendor creating shrink-wrapped software you will have a hard time ensuring that your software supports all plausible extension combinations. Thus you will not bother just like most gaming companies does not bother porting their software to GNU/Linux. Sun basically did the same thing in the early 2000's with all their Java editions and profiles. It didn't work out well.
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Re:RISC-V Public review for standard extensions Zc
by jhgkjhlkhjkljk on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:40AM
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The software makers will settle on a given subset of extensions most likely. The extensions here are meant for microcontrollers that won't run Linux. I think this will all sort itself out.