| 1 Aug 2025 |
 emily | I guess you use them when you want to use five gates on your FPGA to implement 10 lines of logic | 12:16:37 |
| emily | and you want to do it in C for some reason | 12:16:48 |
 dramforever | rva20/rv64gc is painful | 12:16:59 |
| dramforever | rva22 is about right for now i think | 12:17:13 |
| dramforever | rva23 we'll see in 2030 | 12:17:21 |
| emily | RV64GC, adds the hardware garbage collection collection | 12:17:24 |
| emily | isn't Ubuntu dropping support for anything but RVA23 | 12:17:32 |
| dramforever | by that i mean if the sw ecosystem evolved reasonably | 12:17:48 |
| dramforever | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
isn't Ubuntu dropping support for anything but RVA23 i've been trying to start a meme about which of rva23 hw and silksong will be available first | 12:18:33 |
| emily | or is the government just throwing boards at people to subsidize upstreaming or something but you can't actually buy a laptop | 12:18:35 |
| emily | personally I think it will be cool if there is an Ubuntu ISO that you cannot run on any hardware publicly-available on the market | 12:19:06 |
| dramforever | no you can just buy it on aliexpress | 12:19:10 |
| dramforever | it's less easy to buy because less demand and maaaybe sanctions? i don't know if any sanctions stop loongson from selling abroad | 12:20:24 |
| dramforever | but it certainly isn't helping their business in general | 12:20:35 |
| emily | I assume it also just does not perform well for the price | 12:21:19 |
