RISE project
It was recently revealed that the Linux Foundation Europe and several big names in technology such as "Red Hat, Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, MediaTek, Nvidia, Intel among others" have partnered to create the development of an ecosystem comprehensive software package that supports the processor architecture RISC-V.
The project, referred to as RISE (RISC-V Software Ecosystem), aims to bring together vendors who are committed to making more "software available for RISC-V hardware" in various industry sectors, including mobile, data center, and automotive.
With this move the Linux Foundation plans to push RISC-V, as it One of its attractions is that it is not only royalty-free, but also managed by its member organizations rather than a single owner.
About the RISE project, it is mentioned that the members of the project will contribute financially and by providing engineers to develop tools, libraries, operating systems and applications adapted to the needs identified by the technical committee of the project.
Mission
Accelerate open source software development for RISC-V
Raise the quality of software implementations of the RISC-V platform
Drive the RISC-V software ecosystem and align the efforts of ecosystem partners
The appeal of RISC-V is that it is not only royalty-free, but also governed by its member organizations rather than a single owner. This makes it an attractive alternative for regions like China, which are looking to circumvent US restrictions to provide advanced technology to the country.
For those unaware of RISC-V, they should know that this is an instruction set architecture Free and open 64-bit RISC (ISA) i.e. cwith open specifications and can be used freely by education, research and industry. This project, initially created in the computer science division of the University of California at Berkeley, in the United States, was initially intended for study and research, but has become a de facto open architecture standard in the industry. .
The goal From this project is to make an open standard for microprocessor instruction sets, such as the TCP/IP standard for networks or Linux for the kernel, with the processor architecture still closed for the moment, restricting progress,
Qualcomm has hinted that it sees RISC-V as an alternative to the Arm architecture. for your future products. Developing a software ecosystem that includes all the necessary tools and libraries, as well as applications and operating systems, could prove to be a bigger task than expected. It took Arm a decade or more to get enough support around its architecture to make it a competitor to x86 systems in data centers, for example.
Larry Wikelius, Senior Director of Technical Standards at Qualcomm, who said:
"RISC-V's flexible, scalable, and open architecture enables benefits across the entire value chain, from silicon vendors to OEMs to end consumers."
Under the RISE project, member organizations will contribute financially to the initiative, as well as provide the manpower (or "engineering talent") to develop software tailored to the requirements identified by the project's technical committee (TSC).
The intention is for project members to work with open source communities existing in a "robust software ecosystem" that includes development tools, virtualization support, language runtimes, Linux distribution integration, and firmware system.
According to some analysts, developing a software ecosystem for RISC-V may prove more difficult than expected, taking the example of Arm, which took a decade or more to build enough support around its architecture to make it competitive in the field of software. data centers.
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