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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good. Pump that up. I want to be able to run my favorite open OS on open hardware.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Worth noting that just because a CPU uses the RISC-V instruction set does not make it open hardware; it just makes it possible for it to be open hardware, but it's still up to the copyright holder to release the source files and design as open source.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fair, but it means devs will write software that can one day run on open hardware.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's true, but open source software is generally written in high level, portable languages that can be compiled to multiple CPU architectures without changing the code, so proprietary software is really what would have any problems running, and even then, there are x86 emulators like Box86/64 and FEX out there and can even work transparently using systemd-binfmt.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

At the application level? Yes. At the OS / package level? It's still a work in progress. And you need the latter to use the former.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Still, better than fully proprietary hardware.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In a small way, yes, in that the software ecosystem built around it would work on future open hardware, but the hardware could absolutely still be fully, 100% proprietary.