| > Right now, most devices on the market do not support the C extension That's outright false. And outside of the actual devices, the whole software ecosystem very much uses the C extension. Qualcomm simply wants to break the standard to make money, that literally all it is. > Qualcomm wants to remove it because it is actively harmful for fast implementations Funny how not a single company other then Qualcomm argues this. Not Ventara, not Si-Five, not Esperanto, not Tenstorrent, non of the companies form China. Its almost, almost as if it not that big of a deal and Qualcomm simply want to same money and reuse ARM IP. > The solution to fragmentation is to just disable the C extension everywhere, but SiFive doesn't want to hear that. Literally nobody except Qualcomm wants to hear it. It wasn't even a discussion before Qualcomm. All the other companies had plenty of opportunity to bring up issues in all the working groups, and nobody did. Literally not a single company gave a talk, talking about how the C extension was holding them back. In fact most of them were saying the opposite. |