• cmhe@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Protects against what?

    What I read here is just a vague critic from him of the relation between hard- and software developer. Which will not change just because the ISA is open source. It will take some iterations until this is figured out, this is inevevable.

    Soft- and hardware developers are experts in their individual fields, there are not many with enough know-how of both fields to be effective.

    Linus also points out, that because of ARM before, RISC-V might have a easier time, on the software side, but mistakes will still happen.

    IMO, this article doesn’t go into enough depths of the RISC-V specific issues, that it warrants RISC-V in the title, it would apply to any up and coming new ISA.