alt Hacker NewsYou're vastly underestimating the amount of work that has gone into RISC-V that would need to be redone. It's not just a spec. There's an absolute mountain of software and hardware supporting it.
You're vastly underestimating the amount of work that has gone into RISC-V that would need to be redone. It's not just a spec. There's an absolute mountain of software and hardware supporting it.
Sure. But … so was Linux, or Firefox, or GNOME or KDE, etc.
Even RISC-V itself was adopted by volunteers and supported by toolchains, and then kernels, and applications.
The amount of work is less a problem than the motivation. And motivation really just depends on recognizing that the status quo sucks, but is fixable.