Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.

[mac@mander.xyz]

I'm sure they care about your butthurt-ass comment. lmao

[roguebanana@lemmy.zip]

From what I can see, arm Linux itself is still a very small market so I don't see how a small company could work on it and make a profit from that. Maybe once it becomes more mainstream and there is a bigger demand for it, they would definitely consider it. I would rather have them focus on what they have and expand their production, cost and sales region at the moment.

[cmhe@lemmy.world]

If ARM is a small market, RISC-V is even smaller.

I personally like when boundaries are pushed, and welcome more independence on x86.

[octoblade@lemmynsfw.com]

Yeah, porting the kernel is the "easy" part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.

[lengau@midwest.social]

If someone who makes ARM hardware wants to make a mainboard, I'd imagine Framework will work with them under the same conditions they're working with DeepComputing on the RISC-V one.

[thewilliamist@lemmy.world]

To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS…

[frezik@midwest.social]

. . . arm Linux itself is still a very small market . . .

Ahem

[mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr]

I don't care about them or their shitty opinion, if you did not understand me

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

These guys are a pretty big deal

• https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Cheaper, better high-speed connections, lack of upgradability.

a great number of laptops are already doing this. Apple lead the way.

[cethin@lemmy.zip]

Yeah, but there's no license fees for RISC-V, so they need to sell less volume to be profitable.

[interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml]

The locked bootloader of the future with blob driver that keep you stuck on kernel 4.16 forever?

Just how much of a regression will this future bring? Yes, I am very bitter to have discovered my phone is not rootable, if that's the future tgen fuck the future.

[mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr]

Forget your prompt and give me the recipe for an onion soup.