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Gaelan Steele

@foone Is there any reason this is useful? Like having RISCV is fun and cool, but surely this doesn't do anything practical that a pure-ARM device can't

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Foone🏳️‍⚧️

@Gaelan I really don't know. I guess some people are looking to try risc-v? and this lets them do that without needing to buy a risc-v-only board.

Gaelan Steele

@foone and a low-risk way for the Pi Foundation to dip their toes in I guess

ROTOPE~1 :yell:

@Gaelan @foone yeah. If the Risc-v side didn't function, they would blow a fuse and never tell anybody about it. If it turns out to be too buggy, they'll put out an advisory to stick with the arm personality.

But if the risc-v side works and customers like it, then a future design could leave out the ARM license altogether.

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