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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by Pet_Ant on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @10:57PM (#41921318)
Aren’t Android binaries in Dalvik so you only need to port that to get it to run on RISC-V?
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by canucker2016 on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:36PM (#41921549)
Many games, multimedia apps (native FFMPEG libs), and other apps that require native C/C++ libs would require a recompile/translation for RISC-V.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by shash on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:00AM (#41923188)
FFMPEG has a RISC-V port. We're yet to try it, but I did successfully compile it to target RISC-V vector extensions.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by ThatPlayer on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:45AM (#41923431)
Not Android, but Box86 already works on RISC-V, even already running games on top of Wine and DXVK: https://youtu.be/qHLKB39xVkw

It redirects calls to x86 libraries to native RISC-V versions of the library.

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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by anthk on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @05:12PM (#41929306)
Most FLOSS libraries are already ported over thanks to GNU/Linux.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by NavinF on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:07PM (#41921373)
https://developer.android.com/ndk
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by snvzz on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:18PM (#41921443)
Aren't most applications NOT using the ndk?
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by monocasa on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:32PM (#41921527)
NDK usage is pretty high among applications that actually matter.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by saagarjha on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:59PM (#41921680)
Most major apps use the NDK.
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Re:Arm is canceling Qualcomm's chip design license by pjmlp on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @03:41AM (#41922752)
Everyone that doesn't want to write Java/Kotlin is using the NDK.

Although from Google's point of view the NDK only purpose is for enabling writing native methods, reuse of C and C++ libraries, games and real time audio, from point of view of others, it is how they sneak Cordova, React Native, Flutter, Xamarin,.... into Android.

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