ron minnich wrote: > I don't think we can assume that an open, unlicensed instruction set > guarantees open, unlicensed, blob-free CPUs and platforms.
This is of course absolutely accurate. But a freely licensed ISA and implementation(s) thereof are *one step* in the right direction, and a significant one. RISC-V is not so much a guarantee of anything as it is a potential enabler of something. The fabulous thing about RISC-V is what makes ARM successful; there can and will be multiple different silicon vendors, offering products with many different features and tradeoffs. Some can be top performance but proprietary. Some can be transparent/open but slower. There is market for both. //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
