And now, time to write some assembly (without abusing the assembler preprocessor...), coze compilers (aka backdoor injectors, or absurd and grotesque bloats) should become, finally, useless (well some hardware vendor drivers will be provided as gcc/linux C dialect...)
If it was easy, it would not need firmware in the first place. Firmware is there because people expect certain features and quality of life. See softmodems.
> write some assembly (without abusing the assembler preprocessor...)
You want https://terralang.org/ and not "just C"/"just Assembler" instead ?
if risc-v is a success we don't need anything except a risc-v assembler: then the main pitfall would be the abuse of the macro preprocessor.
Modern technology often requires tighter integration. We accept integrated circuits because we're accustomed to them. But then people flip out when they see what's effectively a naked module because it looks like a greedy version of the old thing.
Besides not publishing pricing or detailed specs this close to the planned shipping date, this rings so many alarm bells.
Is it me or is one of the main RISC-V advantage is that it's free of mandatory backdoors ? Why would you need this enclave ?
If the chip can be disabled or if its firmware can be controlled with custom signatures (i.e. a ROM managed through an open boot mechanism such as coreboot) then I don't see any problems with such a core, even in a fully FOSS system.
It's unlikely that this freedom will actually be given to customers, but I don't see any theoretical problems here.
But if I'm to predict the future - they'll fail as their biggest issue now is that over past 10-15 years they "learned" well how to be "greedy" and are looking for short term maximized profits.
