Interesting. In the latest Amp Hour Podcast Episode about RPi, Chris Gammell asked about the ARM-Connection and if there are any ideas about going the RISC way one day. James Adams and Liam Fraser answered very diplomatic (like “good Architecture, exciting, but we know arm and their benefits too well”). I guess there is now no open path anymore for RPi ever going down that road.
At the moment their current OS is backwards compatible with the 32-bit Model B+ they released back around 2014, so only one distro to maintain and one set of kernel modules etc. I can imagine they probably have a very close relationship with Broadcom at this point too…
It’s slightly disappointing, but it’s still very, very early days for RISC-V, some things just aren’t there yet like the value for money, performance per watt, and support for various hardware features. In a few years though things will look very different…
AFAIK Broadcom/Broadcom employees is/are who founded the RaspberryPi Foundation for educational purposes.
Edit: after a bit of googling this isn’t accurate but Broadcom does supply funding and has some employees on the board so it seems they play a big role in the organization.
Interesting. In the latest Amp Hour Podcast Episode about RPi, Chris Gammell asked about the ARM-Connection and if there are any ideas about going the RISC way one day. James Adams and Liam Fraser answered very diplomatic (like “good Architecture, exciting, but we know arm and their benefits too well”). I guess there is now no open path anymore for RPi ever going down that road.
At the moment their current OS is backwards compatible with the 32-bit Model B+ they released back around 2014, so only one distro to maintain and one set of kernel modules etc. I can imagine they probably have a very close relationship with Broadcom at this point too…
It’s slightly disappointing, but it’s still very, very early days for RISC-V, some things just aren’t there yet like the value for money, performance per watt, and support for various hardware features. In a few years though things will look very different…
AFAIK Broadcom/Broadcom employees is/are who founded the RaspberryPi Foundation for educational purposes.
Edit: after a bit of googling this isn’t accurate but Broadcom does supply funding and has some employees on the board so it seems they play a big role in the organization.
Rpi is basically just a broadcom promotional tool that got out of hand.
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Isn’t that the opposite of what they were talking about…?