I never understood this hype about RISC-V. Okay, some people are all about "open" everything, I don't get what benefits it gives nor is it achieveable at all, realisticaly, but OK, for some - it's a goal per se. But, there is MIPS - already "open", one of the oldest RISC architectures, what's wrong with it, why aren't you hyping about it? not using, not demanding making SBCs with it? that RISC-V looks just a clone of MIPS, but MIPS is there for more than 30 years. Meaning more support, more knowledge, more experience etc. SPARC - yet another pioneer RISC arhcitecture. Also open. Take it and produce whatever you want. POWER, I mean POWER! no, it's all not interesting to the hordes of people flooding every SBC related forum with this almost yet non-existent RISC-V thing. Looks like someone is making promotion using free (?) volunteers to spread around and make this silly babbling about "advantages" of this "teh most openest HW".
The other thing I see similar pattern for is Rust.
Why you not uses Rust is teh coolestest opensourecestest language evah? let's make a flashmob to demand Pine produce RISC-V SBC, with linux rewritten in Rust, with a cluster of floppy drives as the main storage, made into ZFS RAID. encrypted!!11
Come on, let those dudes inventing the wheel again, at RISC-V, yet release something (more than overpriced arduino like microcontroller board), for anybody to consider its usage. It should yet exist. then it should realy prove its advantage over existing solutions. So much, that people will take the burden of developing/porting for this architecture. So far it smells annoying advertizement, made by clueless people for which the only advantage and need is that magic word "open-source". what you would do with that open-sourceness of the CPU?
The other thing I see similar pattern for is Rust.
Why you not uses Rust is teh coolestest opensourecestest language evah? let's make a flashmob to demand Pine produce RISC-V SBC, with linux rewritten in Rust, with a cluster of floppy drives as the main storage, made into ZFS RAID. encrypted!!11 Come on, let those dudes inventing the wheel again, at RISC-V, yet release something (more than overpriced arduino like microcontroller board), for anybody to consider its usage. It should yet exist. then it should realy prove its advantage over existing solutions. So much, that people will take the burden of developing/porting for this architecture. So far it smells annoying advertizement, made by clueless people for which the only advantage and need is that magic word "open-source". what you would do with that open-sourceness of the CPU?
ANT - my hobby OS for x86 and ARM.