[libre-riscv-dev] PowerISA, NLNet grants

[Samuel Falvo II]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 10:58 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> > And, the RISC-V Foundation can do nothing to stop me, because officially,
> > on paper, I'm not a RISC-V product.
>
> as long as you are not commercial, yes.
>
> sue you for trademark infringement if you use RISC-V in your product,
> commercially.
>

I'm *not* saying I'm using RISC-V.  I'm saying that I am compatible with
their standards, but I'm not RISC-V.

so use the phrase "V-CSIR RV64I compatible" instead :)
>

I don't even do that.  I say that I provide support for the RV64I
instruction set and a proper subset of the privilege specifications.  Other
ISA extensions might be coming in the future; but on the whole, my
processor is the 530x0 family of processors.  The 530x0 is RISC-V
compatible, but not conformant, in exactly the same sort of way that Compaq
machines were IBM compatible, but not IBM clones or certified.

-- 
Samuel A. Falvo II