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by blueblob 1095 days ago
Is RISC-V any more efficient than arm?
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pier25 1095 days ago
Probably similar but the advantage of RISC-V is that it's open source.

AFAIK x86 is still dominating the data centers. There's a bit of ARM going on but wouldn't it make more sense to switch straight to RISC-V?

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blueblob 1095 days ago
Yeah, an open source architecture sounds like it could be a game changer for the SBC market
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otabdeveloper4 1095 days ago
No, because aarch64 linux distros only became a viable thing just recently.

Who knows how many decades it will take for e.g. Debian to support RISC-V properly.

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blueblob 1093 days ago
I didn't downvote you; I think you make a reasonable, albeit exaggerated, point. I think it's also important to look through the lens that a lot of things linux supports are reverse engineered and that's why they take a long time to implement. This is de facto different with everything being open so I expect support will come faster. There's also the fact that this aligns better with the ideologies of a lot of free software enthusiasts so they may be more likely to work on it.
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