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Like UNIX workstation wars won by NeXTSTEP in the end, come for POSIX (RISC-V in this case) compatibility, stay for the extensions.


Hardware and Software have very different dynamics, therefore the comparison with POSIX is very weak.

There is no way today to build competitive opensource hardware, and RISC-V is not about providing opensource hardware. With RISC-V (or any other ISA) we remain mainly dependent on the manufacturer who implement whatever they want within your processor. I think you are expecting too much from RISC-V, it's not about winning a war against manufacturers, it's about providing a royalty-free high-performance standard ISA which makes it easier for newcomers to enter the market.

RISC-V is built around the idea that manufacturers can make their own non-standard extensions and benefit from existing work.




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