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Re:Welcome Debian riscv64 by ur-whale on Monday July 24, 2023 @06:14AM (#36845438)
If there is a downfall of RISCV, it's going to be the myriad of sub-architectures and their weird naming schemes, with an added layer of marketing drones muddying up the waters even further.

This is going to confuse the hell out of the potential customer base and it would be a crying shame, wasting a golden opportunity to get out of the oxygen-choking clutches of proprietary ISA vendors (who at this point are purely rent-seeking and add exactly zero actual economic value to the ecosystem).

Re:Welcome Debian riscv64 by 15155 on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:30AM (#36847706)
I don't think so, in practice since atomics (on single-core systems especially) and floats can easily be emulated. If larger, more-incompatible extensions become commonplace, possibly.
Re:Welcome Debian riscv64 by bee_rider on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:00AM (#36848129)
I mean, in the very least the proprietary ISA vendors provide the service of selecting what extensions are added. If you think too many extensions will take down RISC-V, that seems to have value.
Re:Welcome Debian riscv64 by panick21_ on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:59PM (#36871373)
RISC-V will do the same thing. That's what profiles and even further platforms will provide. Most software (the large investment) will target these profiles.

Not following the profiles will be possible but will cause issues.

Re:Welcome Debian riscv64 by snvzz on Monday July 24, 2023 @01:26PM (#36851394)
Not since RISC-V Profiles[0].

0. https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/releases