The world's first RISC-V phone might be just around the corner
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The RISC-V ISA is commonly divided into two architectures, namely RV32 and RV64, covering 32-bit and 64-bit register sizes respectively. And although the RV64 standard is not yet fully RV32-compatible, the two are, except from some minor divergences, closely associated products of the same family. In fact, it took some
  • @kixik@lemmy.ml
    3•2 years ago

    Sadly, I’m not waiting for a risc-v android. I’m waiting for a risc-v pinePhone, and that seems really far right now.

    • m-p{3} ⛔
      1•2 years ago

      I suppose the PinePhone OS (or any other OS) could be ported to that Android phone if it becomes popular enough.

      • @federico3@lemmy.ml
        1•2 years ago

        No, you need hardware to be designed on purpose to work with FLOSS OSes. Pine64 does a lot of work to select the correct hardware for this.

        • @pinknoise@lemmy.ml
          2•2 years ago

          Android is just Linux with some patches and a crappy userland sprinkled on top. Why should you not be able to run whatever you want if the bootloader isn’t locked? Pine64 tries to use components that have a documentation you can access without an NDA. If you want a libre smartphone you are fucked anyways since you’ll have trouble finding a modem that doesn’t require loading a non-free firmware :(

          • poVoq
            3•2 years ago

            Non-free device drivers that only work with outdated kernel versions are the main problem with porting GNU/Linux to Android phones. You can try to patch around that for a while with compatibility layers like Halium, but usually not very long.

    • @3arn0wl@lemmy.ml
      1•2 years ago

      Ideally I’d like a RISC-V board that could be slotted into a Fairphone!

      A man can dream, after all.

      (You probably know already, but: Pine64 are dipping their toes into RISC-V… they just don’t seem to be going all out for the new architecture… yet.)