@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 8 months agoRISC-V support in Android just got a big setbackwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squarepartial_accumenlinkEnglish21•8 months agoFourth to last line in the article: "While the company’s statement doesn’t go into detail about the rationale behind this decision, it’s good to get confirmation that RISC-V support in Android isn’t being killed off entirely. "
minus-square@ozymandias117linkEnglish16•8 months agoThe quote of “removing RISC-V from generic kernel images” makes a lot of sense It only kind of works on arm64 right now, trying to add a whole new ISA seems rushed If they make exceptions for customized kernels for other architectures for now, that seems fine
Fourth to last line in the article:
"While the company’s statement doesn’t go into detail about the rationale behind this decision, it’s good to get confirmation that RISC-V support in Android isn’t being killed off entirely. "
The quote of “removing RISC-V from generic kernel images” makes a lot of sense
It only kind of works on arm64 right now, trying to add a whole new ISA seems rushed
If they make exceptions for customized kernels for other architectures for now, that seems fine