Linus Torvalds Expresses Concerns About RISC-V's Development

TapTechNews July 13th news, Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, expressed his concerns in the latest speech, believing that the development process of RISC-V will repeat the same mistakes and encounter the problems that Arm and x86 encountered many years ago: the problem of coordination between software and hardware teams.

Torvalds said in the interview:

Even if the hardware is designed in a more open way, the difference between the hardware personnel and the software personnel is very large. There is a considerable gap between Verilog and the kernel, not to mention working at a higher stack.

Therefore, it is very difficult for RISC-V developers to advance various works in the face of such a huge gap. I have reasons to infer that the design contents of the current hardware equipment personnel will overlap, but one of the advantages is that they can draw lessons from the previous mistakes and try to avoid repeating the same mistakes as much as possible.

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RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture based on the principle of reduced instruction set, simply explained as a kind of open-source hardware corresponding to the open-source software movement. This project was started at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, but many contributors are volunteers and industry workers outside the university.