Comment by wmf
7 years ago
it's about having a chip you can truly trust
This gets repeated over and over but I don't get it. You could build a blob-free ARM chip. Existing RISC-V chips already have/had blobs. Freeeeedom is orthogonal to the ISA.
7 years ago
it's about having a chip you can truly trust
This gets repeated over and over but I don't get it. You could build a blob-free ARM chip. Existing RISC-V chips already have/had blobs. Freeeeedom is orthogonal to the ISA.
I guess with a royalty-free ISA the chips themselves are a bit more likely to be open source? SiFive has a lot of HDL (Chisel) code on their GitHub. I can find at least the I/O blocks: https://github.com/sifive/sifive-blocks/tree/master/src/main...