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[–] four@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

With Valve talking about open ecosystems so much, I have glimmer of hope that they'll move to RISC-V.

Probably not gonna happen though... At least not yet

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That would be amazing, but given how speculative the Framework and other RISC projects are I feel like that would be a massive headline for Valve.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

As someone who works in assembler a lot, RISC-V is probably my favorite.

If anyone knows a useful open source project where people like me can contribute to this future happening, please do respond to this comment !

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've followed RISC-V development. It is so promising and so cool. But it is also under-cooked right now, I don't think it is ready to carry such a product. It might get better in the future, but as it stands it takes way too much effort to release a hardware product using it, never mind a high performant one like a gaming console. My hope is that the EU and FOSS initiatives can take a stronghold on the standard up to the point that it becomes a feasible competitor to Qualcomm and it retains it's openness. It is the only way stuff like a truly spyware free and privacy respecting smartphone can exist. Linux will never thrive with the hostile hellscape that is ARM hardware. Valve themselves have had to fight with the stubbornness of a myriad consortiums that want to gatekeep their modules and refuse to offer open source software. RISC-V just needs a lot of love and care for now to grow into a competitive standard. Many cool developers are working on it but it doesn't have the same financial effort behind it that ARM has.

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But then, isn't that kinda where linux was at before steamOS kicked this revolution off?? Like, I had kinda dabbled in various linux distros here and there prior to steamOS and was always left feeling like it lacked complete polish - VR, gaming, easy app installs (outside the terminal, for normies)... All that has never seemed so well rounded -- until steamOS blessed me with KDE, and since then I've mained Debian w/ KDE on all my machines (hopefully I can even main deb on my phone, one day!!)

Point is= maybe if a company like valve (or even valve themselves) pulls a similar approach with RISC-V that we've seen them do with steamOS, we aren't wrong to hope for the same sort of outcome for it as well!

But, that's just a dream I suppose 😅 here's hoping!!! 🤞🤞

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, and that is why I'm hopeful for more RISC-V development. One day, maybe, there will be first party manufacturers making open devices that work easily with any software of choice instead of proprietary vendor lock-in.