> What standard extensions exactly were ratified to early?
This is part of why RISC-V has a problem: your question, as with the others, is wrong.
Why do we assume the whole core philosophy is actually correct? Why do we think that we can solve mistakes or omissions with extensions?
The underlying reality is you can’t. As the debates over some extensions are showing not all ISAs are equal (a myth promoted by Intel at length) and once you accept that a lot of the rest falls apart.
This is especially true if there is a core insight which your main competition are not telling you regarding the rest.
SiFive does not need to push things through, they damage things by promoting inertia. They are so effective at it it would be tempting to say it is a conspiracy.
I still don't understand what you are talking about.
> The underlying reality is you can’t.
But the actual real reality is you can ... because it was done and it is working pretty well.
> As the debates over some extensions are showing not all ISAs are equal
I don't know what that means. And even if I knew, 'equal' is irrelevant. The B extension and the V extension don't have to be 'equal' in any sense of the word I can think of.
> This is especially true if there is a core insight which your main competition are not telling you regarding the rest.
Again, what are you even talking about. You are never actual concrete. Do you believe there is a magical 'core' insight that ARM and Intel have? And if so why do you think non of the countless people involved in RISC-V that have worked all all these companies for the last 30 years don't know about it?
> SiFive does not need to push things through, they damage things by promoting inertia. They are so effective at it it would be tempting to say it is a conspiracy.
SiFive isn't in control. RISC-V International is gigantic with lots of members that have input. What you call 'inertia' I would call 'lots of hard work by lots of people to get the best outcome' and most people are pretty happy with the results and the progress.
The only possible thing I can think of that you might reference is Qualcomm attempted to take over, something that was not opposed by SiFive, but by literally everybody else. If you think they were right you can just say so.
And if it turns out Qualcomm is so uniquely brilliant and insightful they can publish their own extensions and because its so superior, people will adopt it. The same goes for anybody else.
This is part of why RISC-V has a problem: your question, as with the others, is wrong.
Why do we assume the whole core philosophy is actually correct? Why do we think that we can solve mistakes or omissions with extensions?
The underlying reality is you can’t. As the debates over some extensions are showing not all ISAs are equal (a myth promoted by Intel at length) and once you accept that a lot of the rest falls apart.
This is especially true if there is a core insight which your main competition are not telling you regarding the rest.
SiFive does not need to push things through, they damage things by promoting inertia. They are so effective at it it would be tempting to say it is a conspiracy.