Re:Major Changes at RISC-V Designer SiFive
by Findecanor on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:58AM
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> Qualcomm's proposal smells strongly like they're doing the minimum to strap a RISC-V decoder to the front of these cores.
Hmm.. At about the same time as the proposal to drop C from RVA, Qualcomm also proposed an instruction-set extension [1] that smells very much of ARM's ISA (at least to my nose). It also has several issues to criticise, IMHO.
Hmm.. At about the same time as the proposal to drop C from RVA, Qualcomm also proposed an instruction-set extension [1] that smells very much of ARM's ISA (at least to my nose). It also has several issues to criticise, IMHO.
[1] https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/332/0/cod...