OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream supported" design

Re:OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream s... by snvzz on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:03AM (#38937116)

>You realize Apple Silicon is ARM, right? And 99% of all smartphones that have been sold in the last decade, and indeed in 2023, are based on ARM cores?

Emphasis on "cores". Relative to each one of these application processor cores, how many embedded smaller cores doing specialized tasks do you think there are?

Are you aware RISC-V already has penetration there? Do you know how e.g. the popular Qualcomm SoCs have shipped a bunch of RISC-V cores for a while already?

Are you aware the companies behind popular alternatives to ARM such as Arc or MIPS have already embraced RISC-V?

In short, what makes you think that in 2025, most of these cores will be ARM?

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Re:OpenWRT turns 20; wants to launch their "first upstream s... by umactually1 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:10PM (#38941961)

> Emphasis on "cores". Relative to each one of these application processor cores, how many embedded smaller cores doing specialized tasks do you think there are?

Fair point, but the context here is your original comment:

> Great idea, but not a fan of the timing yielding a legacy (ARM) SoC.

So you're talking about the main processing cores of the SoC, the one(s) that are responsible for running the Linux kernel + OpenWRT user space, right?. Not the random other 8/16/32-bit MCUs...

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