@cwebber All valid points. What does RISC-V do to address these issues. Just make it open source basically (a huge step in its own right).
@freemo It's a libre specification for the Instruction Set Architecture: https://riscv.org/specifications/
@cwebber Awesome. I'm an EE and a CE. Just havent had time to catch up on the RISC-V stuff. So this is right up my ally. Thanks for the info.
@freemo Happy to spread the good word! ;)
@elomatreb @cwebber valid
@freemo
- No consumer wants Intel ME (or AMD's equiv) low-level spyware, but except that Intel won't remove it because IIUC it's key to Intel's team-up with Hollywood's DRM stuff.
- Hardware bugs end up being system-wide bugs. See Meltdown, Spectre, but there are others too. Users have no control over fixing that stuff. There's no community opportunity to even *audit* it.
- We're moving into an era increasingly where it's very hard to install FOSS software on devices.