Post #1851188

2026-05-01 05:48 UTC

So Risc-v is the open source instructional set? Does that mean it will be hard to port operating systems, utilities, games and whatnot to Risc-V? I think I saw a laptop using Risc-V recently.

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@JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 2026-05-01 10:42

Yes, but also on the hardware level. I don’t know enough about OS programming to know if it is the architecture or the (closed source, as mentioned) CPU design itself that is more difficult to implement. Looking at the MCU space, even with a known architecture (like ARM), each processor has yo be individually implemented in software and firmware which is a ton of work, and the only people who necessarily know how are the processor designers unless it is open source. But take that with a big block of salt, because I have never done it, just looking at industry practices.

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