By: Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us), August 1, 2020 10:24 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on July 31, 2020 10:31 pm wrote:
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> You're ignoring software and dev instructure which POWER has in spades, while RISC-V is new
> on the scene. As Linus has pointed out, those places where it lacks may be acceptable to self
> flagellators in the embedded world, but would be less tolerated in the smartphone world if
> e.g. Qualcomm was looking for somewhere new to land if Nvidia poisoned the ARM well.
Does it? POWER has less optimizations in multimedia codebases for example than ARM and there wasn't similar broad push for server software tooling as ARM has, so I'd say it might actually be disadvantaged in servers now compared to ARM, although it technically was in them first. And mobile, well, 0 ability to go there, currently - MIPS would have a better position to return to android phones.
Isn't most of that software and dev infrastructure actually stale or targetting obsolete platforms, today? Power for example is in processs of making LE Linux the goto platform which it wasn't in its heyday, so old macos era software doesn't need to apply and non-Linux IBM software is also not relevant.
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> You're ignoring software and dev instructure which POWER has in spades, while RISC-V is new
> on the scene. As Linus has pointed out, those places where it lacks may be acceptable to self
> flagellators in the embedded world, but would be less tolerated in the smartphone world if
> e.g. Qualcomm was looking for somewhere new to land if Nvidia poisoned the ARM well.
Does it? POWER has less optimizations in multimedia codebases for example than ARM and there wasn't similar broad push for server software tooling as ARM has, so I'd say it might actually be disadvantaged in servers now compared to ARM, although it technically was in them first. And mobile, well, 0 ability to go there, currently - MIPS would have a better position to return to android phones.
Isn't most of that software and dev infrastructure actually stale or targetting obsolete platforms, today? Power for example is in processs of making LE Linux the goto platform which it wasn't in its heyday, so old macos era software doesn't need to apply and non-Linux IBM software is also not relevant.