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RISC-V plans to make ISA extensions that will enable it to work better in graphics applications. Look forward to truly open-source graphics
Fuck yes. When normal modern video cards start costing too much for the common person to afford, at least we'll still be able to play quake.
Or Xonotic
I'm not much of a gamer, Gnome Mahjong is mostly good enough for me, but I have enjoyed Xonotic. It's a pretty fast play.
What year is it?!
Somebody rolled a five or an eight!
The way people dress, Quake, it's 1996!
I'm confused, he made a homemade GPU that can't be mass-produced, and it runs a 30 year old game at 44 fps, and it may (or may not) actually become open source, and I'm supposed to be excited about it?
You should be impressed. Integrated circuits are insanely complex, and any general purpose processing hardware since the 90s is way too complicated for the human mind to comprehend.
Open sourced physical technology is only in its infancy, you may be exited about this trend.
Ive seen open sourced hacking tools, openassistant wireless connectors, complete keyboards.
Its about time someone started on open sourced proper pc hardware, no matter of how small scale it starts.
Imagine a future where you can 3d print a 2d printer and its refillable cartridges at home, with extensive manuals on diy repairs and maintenance and no costs beyond the raw resources and your time.
Open source demonstrates humans cooperating with no profit insensitive. Exactly what capitalism calls impossible. When i first learned about linux it felt incredibly lacking compared to windows, nowadays its my main os, its surpassed windows in anything except good Nvidia drivers.
If you're not interested then no, you shouldn't be excited about it.
You're not supposed to be anything. It's a pretty cool feat by one person though.
Subsequently, the project got a boost by the debut of Xilinx Kria System-on-Modules (SoMs), which combine “insanely cheap Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAs with a ton of DSP units and a (comparatively) massive amount of LUTs and FFs, and of particular interest, a hardened PCIe core,” enthused Barrie.
Yes, I understand, the bippity uses mumps in order for the many lutes to flips those zupps in their pacas.
FPGA
Awww, I thought this was an ASIC. Slapping an FPGA on a PCIe card is decidedly less cool. Still, props for creating a usable GPU circuit description, that must have been a nightmare.
In situation where there are affordable (for this purpose) FPGAs - more cool, not less. ASICs you have to actually order somewhere somehow to be produced.
And one can order ASICs from that description, no?
