top | item 36314883 (no title) blueblob | 2 years ago Is RISC-V any more efficient than arm? discuss order hn newest pier25|2 years 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? blueblob|2 years ago Yeah, an open source architecture sounds like it could be a game changer for the SBC market otabdeveloper4|2 years 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. load replies (1)
pier25|2 years 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? blueblob|2 years ago Yeah, an open source architecture sounds like it could be a game changer for the SBC market otabdeveloper4|2 years 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. load replies (1)
blueblob|2 years ago Yeah, an open source architecture sounds like it could be a game changer for the SBC market
otabdeveloper4|2 years 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. load replies (1)
pier25|2 years ago
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?
blueblob|2 years ago
otabdeveloper4|2 years ago
Who knows how many decades it will take for e.g. Debian to support RISC-V properly.