▲ 364 ▼ Debian Linux is Joining The RISC-V Bandwagon (www.howtogeek.com) submitted 3 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Rekhyt@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (1 child) #1: CISC has gone largely (entirely?) extinct Citation needed? Isn't x86 considered a CISC? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cevedale@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Yes and no. AFAIK when coding assembler for these chips you use CISC-instructions but they get translated into RISC-instructions by a hardcoded mikroprocessing-unit (not sure about the real term). So the processor itself gets RISC-instructions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] biblbrox@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago In reality it seems to be more complicated: https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cevedale@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child) Yes and no. AFAIK when coding assembler for these chips you use CISC-instructions but they get translated into RISC-instructions by a hardcoded mikroprocessing-unit (not sure about the real term). So the processor itself gets RISC-instructions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] biblbrox@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago In reality it seems to be more complicated: https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html permalink fedilink source parent
[–] biblbrox@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago In reality it seems to be more complicated: https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html permalink fedilink source parent