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RISC-V and RISE Partner to a Take a Role in the Yocto Project
Quoting: RISC-V and RISE Partner to a Take a Role in the Yocto Project - FOSS Force —
This may not seem like much, but it’s big deal for open source.
Gone are the days when open source was just about Linux and software applications. That’s still a main focus, but frequently open source — for many of the same reasons and with many of the same rules — can encompass hardware, data center design, standards, and much more, all under the banner of “open.”
Take RISC-V for example, the open source instruction set architecture that’s increasingly used as CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, and practically everything else silicon. If you’re thinking that maybe RISC-V isn’t real open source, because it isn’t software, you need to look at today’s news, where it’s intricately tied to the Yocto Project which is a project of the Linux Foundation, which means it’s about as open source as it gets.