[Cerowrt-devel] mips goes risc-v

[Dave Taht]

I would suggest reaching out to various members of the risc-v consortium
as for their desire for a wifi stack, and/or doing a preso there.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 5:03 AM Xianjun Jiao (UGent-imec)
<Xianjun.Jiao at ugent.be> wrote:
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> risc-v indeed is getting more and more developers. I also looked into it a lot. In principle, there is a chance that some of the openwifi low level state machines (for low MAC protocol) could be replaced by some simple risc-v cores. -- Just some wild/initial ideas, no resource/action planned yet.
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> Best regards,
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> Xianjun Jiao
> Senior researcher, imec - Gent university
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> https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/03/08/2117238/mips-technologies-joins-risc-v-moves-to-open-source-isa-standard
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> To me my biggest kvetch about the risc-v effort was the lack of
> additional on-chip IP support, which,
> lacking compatible busses and so on, was going to limit multiple
> generations of chips to just what could be developed afresh. Even
> "simple" IP blocks like usb support take time. While I really like
> "chisel" as a design language, it is far behind what arm and intel
> use. But: With the mips licensees scrambling to reuse their IP,
> somehow, and move to risc-v, I think this architecture has an ever
> increasing chance of success.
>
> It's been a really good couple of months for open source this or that.
> I keep hoping someone will seriously fund
> https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi  as well, for, in order to handle
> the complexities of 802.11n and beyond, a co-processor with some
> serious oomph, and a well designed piece of open firmware, is needed.
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