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Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive by fidotron on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:50AM (#37999175)
To be fair here you have historically been able to bork certain Qualcomm devices running legitimate ARM code due to them not supporting all the instructions they claimed. (And the BSP would do sneaky things to attempt to obfuscate this).

Qualcomm absolutely have the market power in the Android space to redefine a new open ISA if they want to though.

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Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive by snvzz on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:12AM (#38010833)
>Qualcomm absolutely have the market power in the Android space to redefine a new open ISA if they want to though.

Only if Google allows them. Which is unlikely.

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