Help me understand this better.
From what I have read online, since arm just licenses their ISA and each vendor’s CPU design can differ vastly from one another unlike x86 which is standard and only between amd and Intel. So the Linux support is hit or miss for arm CPUs and is dependent on vendor.
How is RISC-V better at this?. Now since it is open source, there may not be even some standard ISA like arm-v8. Isn’t it even fragmented and harder to support all different type CPUs?
USENIX ATC '21/OSDI '21 Joint Keynote Address-It’s Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
Timothy Roscoe, ETH Zurich
https://youtu.be/36myc8wQhLo
At 19:22
examples he gives are what you’d expect:
Many systems on the chip that Linux doesn’t have control over, and could be compromised by a cross SoC attack