I don't doubt RISC-V can be used to make powerful cores but adoption as a general purpose CPU (rather than MCU) will need more than good numbers.
There's still a missing piece in the RISC-V ecosystem: a coordination body of platform-level standards. Debian took a stand with RVA23 support but then there's a ton of little things that are taken for granted on the PC platform such as UEFI and ACPI (as horrible as they may be).
risc-v is basically borrowing the ARM SystemReady stuff. This includes the expectations for ACPI and UEFI on servers. The RISE organization has been trying to drive these standards iiuc.
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I don't doubt RISC-V can be used to make powerful cores but adoption as a general purpose CPU (rather than MCU) will need more than good numbers.
There's still a missing piece in the RISC-V ecosystem: a coordination body of platform-level standards. Debian took a stand with RVA23 support but then there's a ton of little things that are taken for granted on the PC platform such as UEFI and ACPI (as horrible as they may be).
risc-v is basically borrowing the ARM SystemReady stuff. This includes the expectations for ACPI and UEFI on servers. The RISE organization has been trying to drive these standards iiuc.
It's fine, they'll just make a high performance extension set
Debian? Sure you don't mind Ubuntu?