r/linux - Chinese Academy of Sciences releases "Xiangshan", a high performance open source RISC-V processor that runs Linux
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  • AgreeableLandscapeM
    181·
    3 years ago

    We finally get another promising and actually open source RISC-V implementation among the sea of proprietary designs that just don’t want to pay an ISA licensing fee, and this happens.

      • nutomicA
        16·
        3 years ago

        You dont have to trust this new processor, the important thing is that they are developing an alternative to the Intel/AMD duopoly on desktop and server CPUs. You might not be threatened by NSA backdoors, but there are many people and organizations who are.

            • xenith
              6·
              3 years ago

              I agree 100% with your comment. Fuck the surveillance state. Fuck the 14 eyes and their collaborators. Fuck capitalism hard. There’s a metric fuckton of legitimate and serious criticism of the 14 eyes and the practices of the US specifically.

              At the same time, legitimate criticism about any other country is valid, including China. There shouldn’t be sides where one is “bad” and the other is “good.” It rings of Republicans bad/Democrats good. None of the rich and powerful work for you or care about you. That’s the only way they became rich and powerful - sociopathic behavior. To them, you and I only matter as far as we can advance their desires.

              I realize that the US pushes out anti-China rhetoric constantly and most of it is total bullshit. I also see most arguments against the CPP are based around that propaganda. That doesn’t mean that the CPP is doing everything right and deserves a universal pass on criticism. No government does.

              Show me a government full of pure and transparent people and ideas who work solely for the good of everyone and we should get off Lemmy and work on getting citizenship there.

              With all that said if its an open source processor, I don’t understand why it originating country matters if anyone can analyze the technology, but then I know nothing about the inner workings of a processor.

  • RoAe
    13·
    3 years ago

    Oof. That’s unfortunate. At least it looks like people are downvoting them for the most part

    • DessalinesOPA
      12·
      3 years ago

      Nice, most of the bigoted comments went negative. Props to that community.

  • soronixa
    131·
    3 years ago

    people seem to forget that it’s the US backdooring every AMD and intel CPU, and that this one is open source. but most people are calling them out, so yeah.

  • k_o_t
    82·
    3 years ago

    oh hey, i just discovered that I’m permanently banned on /r/linux, i don’t even remember why lol

  • vegai
    51·
    3 years ago

    deleted by creator

    • k_o_t
      146·
      3 years ago

      you’re the type of person to comment “not all cops are bad” under a video of a cop shooting a person 27 times for a non-violent drug “offense”, aren’t you?

        • k_o_t
          13·
          3 years ago

          Yea… I’ll pass on anything chinese regardless of how good it may be xD

          Hard pass… No thx

          Chinese (ㆆ _ ㆆ)

          none of those comments even mention ccp…

            • forgotmylastusername
              72·
              3 years ago

              You are so transparent or naive to a fault. Either way. Not a good look.

              More importantly, it’s not you who dictates what is and isn’t racism towards individuals. Learn to shut up, listen, and understand.

            • k_o_t
              4·
              3 years ago

              i get you, those comments might have been just very poorly articulated “there is no way this cpu is going to make it to production in it’s current open source form without any backdoors by the communist party, which is notorious for it’s desire for surveillance and total control”, but it seems unlikely…

        • Halce
          52·
          3 years ago

          It was a dislike of something you know nothing about apart from how the U.S. media wants to present it.

  • RandomSomeone
    38·
    3 years ago

    I didn’t read every comment but I didn’t see a single racist one. Probably because they aren’t. You’re wasting your time, and wasting everyone else’s. Advice: stop seeing racism everywhere.

    On the other hand, it’s a shame that people don’t trust this open source initiative.