Comment Re:Sources for RISC-V speculation? (Score 1) 89
whilst i am well-known (even myself) for not known for getting things totally accurate, i'm sure you know what i mean: a student or professor publicly criticising a highly-respected person... for example david patterson to pick one hypothetical name, would raise... a lot of eyebrows.
Isn't this a general criticism of any democratic system? It would raise a lot of eyebrows because one would expect that the authority figure is qualified in making his/her judgements. I'm still not sure what the issue is here.
hilariously a lot of them are the subject of Dilbert strips. CEOs telling you that "everything's well" (when it clearly isn't) has an *extremely* damaging effect as it completely locks up the *entire* company.
"Don't be Dilbert" seems to be a good mantra to follow.
it does if i am helping them to create a mobile-class processor, that goes into smartphones, tablets, netbooks and chromebooks, which, due to their reduced cost due to huge volume, result in them being sold out of india on amazon, making their way world-wide, and people find that they're not DRM-locked and that they can quite easily replace the OS right down to the bedrock.
the problem will come when they find that the standard debian-riscv and standard fedora-riscv distros.... don't work. they'll then start investigating and find that they need a complete total hard forked version of debian, fedora and so on. at that point it becomes hell for the debian and fedora maintainers, who are pretty much guaranteed to be swamped with requests for support of such low-cost low-power hardware.
What is the motivation for the Shakti engineers to deviate so far from the base ISA that their hardware will no longer be compatible with the general ecosystem? Also, I still don't understand how any of these criticisms are due to the management of the RISC-V community. This just seems like a general criticism of any open-source/libre project. I apologize if I'm sounding too defensive of the RISC-V community. To now, I've believed that RISC-V is being competently led and managed. I really do like to see a future where RISC-V is the Linux of ISAs, and your alarmist comments are troubling me.
