Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Computer architects leaving Intel... Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:48 +0100 (BST) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <2024Aug29.151755@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Reply-To: jgd@cix.co.uk Injection-Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:48:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="38033b2def40f84b61277130ee7f3660"; logging-data="577339"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/iD43GTZpPVf74ODwjfP1IUmBtJ2e4b8c=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pvh39RPvBh9DIVntcNhnNrRRSoM= X-Clacks-Overhead-header: GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 2016 In article <2024Aug29.151755@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote: > jgd@cix.co.uk (John Dallman) writes: > > Android is apparently waiting for a new RISC-V instruction set > > extension; > Which one? I don't know what its name is. It was proposed by Hans Boehm, and the Android team pointed me to this discussion on a RISC-V mailing list: https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-unprivileged/topic/92916241 Searching with various terms suggests it might well be the Zabha extension, ratified in April this year, but that is deduction. > You may not consider it large-scale, but we wanted to have two > RISC-V servers for teaching (in particular, for the compiler > course). Makes sense. It is not in itself "large-scale," but suitable hardware is only going to be available if someone wants a lot of it, enough to make building it worthwhile. > Now it's two years later, and the RISC-V servers are still not > showing up. Yup. RISC-V established a lot of awareness, and some expectations, but there hasn't been the equipment to let people start using it. John