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Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA

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Re: Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA

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Everyone is commenting on "let x86 die" and I would agree if it was just about ISA. But the problem is that x86 has some-sorta-total-disaster-of-a-standard for peripherals and configuration (ACPI, UEFI and so on) and you can actually buy a computer that is compliant and will run Linux out of the box, even if with some glitches. ARM is a handful of totally incompatible SoCs and you are totally dependent on SoC integra…

I've made this same observation, and some RISC-V fan always points to some random ACPI/UEFI-for-RISCV github repo with like, five stars.

I think x86(-64) is complete trash, and it would be nice to have something better, but we're not going to get there if "x exists" is a stand-in for "x is promoted and encouraged".

Re: Intel and AMD form advisory group to reshape x86 ISA

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Irrelevant. Nvidia WON'T.

Nvidia has libre drivers and a firmware blob. Once you stick a PCIE card on a Risc-V port, all the FUD goes away.

It's easier to stick an AMD card tho.

Unlike NVIDIA, AMD open source drivers are actually excellent.

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