catculation@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoRISC-V support in Android just got a big setbackwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up143
arrow-up143external-linkRISC-V support in Android just got a big setbackwww.androidauthority.comcatculation@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square2fedilink
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoFourth to last line in the article: "While the company’s statement doesn’t go into detail about the rationale behind this decision, it’s good to get confirmation that RISC-V support in Android isn’t being killed off entirely. "
minus-squareozymandias117@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 months agoThe quote of “removing RISC-V from generic kernel images” makes a lot of sense It only kind of works on arm64 right now, trying to add a whole new ISA seems rushed If they make exceptions for customized kernels for other architectures for now, that seems fine
Fourth to last line in the article:
"While the company’s statement doesn’t go into detail about the rationale behind this decision, it’s good to get confirmation that RISC-V support in Android isn’t being killed off entirely. "
The quote of “removing RISC-V from generic kernel images” makes a lot of sense
It only kind of works on arm64 right now, trying to add a whole new ISA seems rushed
If they make exceptions for customized kernels for other architectures for now, that seems fine