@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 5 days agoWhich new Protocol or Standard are you most excited about?message-square51fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squarepizzaboilinkfedilinkEnglish23•5 days agoIs there a good resource out there for wrapping my head around RISC-V? Last time I read a wiki my head hurt haha. Seems cool, though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink22•edit-24 days agoIn principle it’s just "slimmer ARM!. RISC-V is also extremely dedicated to using memory mapped IO rather than older style IO x86_64 supports. Think lots of registers, a fun zero register that is always zero, and memory mapped IO.
minus-square@mvirtslink5•4 days agoI for one think we need a register for each unsigned integer, why is zero so special? :P Or if we can’t get that, at least every power of 2 and power of 2 minus 1. Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣
minus-square@PetteriPanolink9•4 days ago Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣 No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn’t support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•4 days agoARM is also reduced-instruction set but I don’t know how they differ. Is the instruction set somehow more reduced?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•4 days agoAren’t they more like a hybrid instruction set and architecture?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-3•edit-23 days agoImma stick with ARM and x64 ngl, ik it’s not open hardware but I don’t really mind that but cool to hear.
RISC-V
I want open-source hardware
Is there a good resource out there for wrapping my head around RISC-V? Last time I read a wiki my head hurt haha. Seems cool, though.
In principle it’s just "slimmer ARM!. RISC-V is also extremely dedicated to using memory mapped IO rather than older style IO x86_64 supports.
Think lots of registers, a fun zero register that is always zero, and memory mapped IO.
I for one think we need a register for each unsigned integer, why is zero so special? :P
Or if we can’t get that, at least every power of 2 and power of 2 minus 1.
Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣
No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn’t support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.
I think a register for each of the primes should be enough.
ARM is also reduced-instruction set but I don’t know how they differ. Is the instruction set somehow more reduced?
Aren’t they more like a hybrid instruction set and architecture?
Imma stick with ARM and x64 ngl, ik it’s not open hardware but I don’t really mind that but cool to hear.