On Thursday, January 2, 2020, zap zapper@disroot.org wrote:
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the consequences - the risk of a clash in the ISA - would be absolutely disastrous.
Oh really? That's odd... hmm... so you have to abandon risc-v you are saying?
abandon *innovating* with RISCV, yes.
Pity that's your only option. I wonder if I should tell others about this.
the circumstances are pretty unique, so it's up to you. they are:
* a Mass Volume commercial product * a Mass Volume LIBRE product * a Mass Volume Libre product where the business opportunity is FULL TRANSPARENCY * a paramount need to innovate BEYOND that which is dictated in a fascist manner by the RISCV Foundation (i.e. they refused to follow Trademark Law's requirements)
very few other products have these requirements.
* a closed secretive company that is developing a proprietary extension may do so as a CUSTOM extension. there is no chance of the extension becoming public.
* an "open source" product simply implenenting EXISTING standards without ISA innovation clearly has no problem.
* an "extension vendor" has no problem because they will be selling to proprietary secretive corporations.
* an academic product also has no problem.
* a NONCOMMERCIAL "open" design which NEVER becomes a commercial product also gaw no problem.
* an UNSUCCESSFUL or niche product, even if it violates Trademark Law by using Custom OPcodes without authotisation, that is not intended to be mass volume also does not cause absolute chaos.
I guess my point is, they use more battery power than intel even.
what, PowerPC? that's a poor micro-architectural choice that doesn't have anything specifically to do with the ISA, especially when the VLE book (Variable Length Encoding) exists (equivalent to RVC).
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Okay, well you did say openpower, what is that?
google "open power foundation"
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