Isoftware yomthombo wasimahla kunye nevulekileyo yinto ethe yasijonga ixesha elide, kodwa umthombo ovulekileyo okanye ihardware yasimahla yinto eseneminyaka elula xa ithelekiswa nehlabathi lesoftware. Kukho ulwakhiwo kunye neeprojekthi ezininzi zasimahla zehardware (jonga nje i-opencores.org ukubona eminye imizekelo), kodwa utyhala olukhulu kusafuneka lunikwe ukuze sonke sixhamle kulo. Ithemba elikhulu RISC-V, i-ISA evulekileyo kwaye apho ezinye iiprojekthi zamahhala okanye iiprojekthi ze-SoC zondliwa.
Ewe, ukunika okonyuso yile nto iprojekthi ijolise ukuyenza. I-CHIPS Alliance phantsi kwesambrela ye-Linux Foundation. I-CHIPS imele i-Common Hardware ye-Interfaces, i-Processors kunye ne-Systems, oko kukuthi, i-hardware eqhelekileyo ye-interfaces, iiprosesa kunye neenkqubo. Yenzelwe ukukhuthaza iinkqubo ze-hardware ezivulekileyo okanye ezikhululekile kunye nokuphuhlisa iitshiphusi ezizayo ngokusekelwe kwi-RISC-V ISA ekhankanywe ngasentla.
Emva CHIPS Alliance kuphela Linux Foundation, exhasa kubo, kodwa kukho iinkampani ezinkulu ezifana Google, SiFive, Western Digital, Esperanto Technologies, njl. Sele uyazi ukuba iSiFive yinkampani engenantsomi esele isungule iitshiphusi ezidumileyo okanye iiprosesa ezisekwe kwiRISC-V kwintengiso. Njengoko uyazi, le ISA isekelwe kuyilo lwe-RISC, kodwa ivuliwe kwaye iphuhliswa yinani elikhulu leenkampani ezaziwayo kwicandelo.
I-RISC-V, sele uyazi, iphantsi kombutho we-RISC-V Foundation, enenani elikhulu leenkampani ezisebenzisanayo, njengoko uyazi. Ukusuka apho, bajongene kuphela nokuphuhlisa imiyalelo eyenza i-ISA, kwaye abanye baphethe ukuphumeza i-microarchitectures ukuphumeza i-ISA ethe. Ngoku, kunye neChips Alliance, a uyilo lwetshiphu esemgangathweni kwaye uvule izixhobo eziphathwayo, iiPC kunye nee-elektroniki zabathengi kunye ne-IoT.
Ndiyathemba ukuba iya kukhula ngokukhawuleza kwaye sibona ii-IC ezimbalwa ngakumbi kunokuba sele zikhona ... Kwakhona, sele uyazi ukuba i-RISC-V ixhaswa yi Linux kernel okoko inguqulelo 4.15.