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minus-squaremesamune@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·10 hours agoI’ve always liked riscv. Just the idea of literally everything on the device being open source is a fun idea. Manuals to everything.
minus-squareRefurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-215 minutes agoJust because the ISA is open source doesn’t mean that the end product or even the design will be open source. RISC-V is licensed permissively, giving anyone the right to make a proprietary (or FOSS) RISC-V processor. Often times, you’ll see mostly open source cores, but then some extention is proprietary.
I’ve always liked riscv. Just the idea of literally everything on the device being open source is a fun idea. Manuals to everything.
Just because the ISA is open source doesn’t mean that the end product or even the design will be open source.
RISC-V is licensed permissively, giving anyone the right to make a proprietary (or FOSS) RISC-V processor.
Often times, you’ll see mostly open source cores, but then some extention is proprietary.