OPEN STANDARDS
RISC-V on Ubuntu
Developers at Canonical and the RISC-V Foundation have been pulling out all the stops to marry everyone’s favourite distro with RISC-V.
Exciting developments have been taking place in the RISC-V camp. If you’re new to the world of open standards, RISC-V (pronounced “Risk Five”) is an ISA (instruction set architecture) based on RISC (reduced instruction set computer) principles.
RISC-V ISA standards are open, meaning that anyone developing RISC-V compatible hardware doesn’t have to pay royalties, as they would to Intel or ARM. As David Patterson, vice chair of the RISC-V Foundation points out, RISC-V isn’t “open source” in the same way as Linux. He likens it instead to Ethernet, a specification for networking that was introduced to replace all the previous competing proprietary ones.