Computers Are Fucked But The Future Is Malleable edition
Post discussion relating to non-x86 instruction set architectures, such as ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and RISC-V.
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Gavin Wilson
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Xavier Edwards
Fuck no ARM is even worse
Its BSD licensed so companies will just make proprietary forks and those forks will be the only ones with decent performance. The only good thing that will come out of RISC-V is it will dethrone ARM from the embedded market eventually because nobody wants to pay for ARM licenses
"best" is subjective because if you're looking for portability its all ARM chinkshit
Jaxon Richardson
Freudian slip, I mean affordability
Bentley Howard
The active Power/Talos/Blackbird thread is over at
Affordability is getting much better with Blackbird
Caleb Roberts
TrustZone is far less malicious and easier to bypass than IME/PSP.
Biggest problem with ARM is the total lack of a standardized firmware along the lines of Open Firmware, UEFI, BIOS, etc., which makes developing OSs or hardware drivers a massive PITA. This is one of the reasons why it's so hard to use different OSs on Android hardware, or even install different versions of Android on them.
Xavier Turner
too slow and lacks support, but it'd be cool to see a non-x86 desktop or laptop
or maybe it'll be vaporware and people will just talk about the "potential" just like shit like the neo900 that never amounted to anything
Ryder Myers
Applefags once again have no idea what they are talking about. An ARM Trusted Firmware is no different than IME/PSP All modern Android devices for example run a version of Little Kernel underneath everything and it had control over the encryption engine
Christopher Jenkins
I guess you can already stick a HiFive Unleashed (RISC-V) in a tower and call it a simple PC, or DIY a laptop like Raspberry Pi users do. They have showed HiFive Unleashed running Debian or something with (see pic) so it should handle basic use-cases already. However, I have seen no videos so I don't know how much you an do without it lagging but it's probably a decent amount (SiFive Freedom U540 SoC, 8 GB DDR4 with ECC).
Then there are those PowerPC workstations in . Not cheap, but very powerful stuff.
Isaiah Stewart
lol pic
Parker Diaz
Why does x86 have memory segmentation?