XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76

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  • XiangShan

    Open-source high-performance RISC-V processor

  • In the readme, they list three components that were sourced from other open-source projects: https://github.com/OpenXiangShan/XiangShan/blob/master/READM...

    So it seems like there already is a little bit of an ecosystem.

  • linux

    Linux kernel source tree (by esmil)

  • The riscv kernel maintainer is not interested in maintaining many different configs for many different SoC. So that is one effort to avoid fragmentation. If you look at the riscv config tree we can see about 5 configs:

    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

    Compare this to the ARM tree there are a few more:

    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

    Source: https://github.com/esmil/linux/pull/6#issuecomment-844135991

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