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Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 21, 2021 4:43 UTC (Fri) by wsy (subscriber, #121706)
Parent article: Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

That's why I don't like standards made by committees.


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Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 21, 2021 7:59 UTC (Fri) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link] (1 responses)

It's nothing to do with "standards made by committees" (which this is not - some very very smart people worked on this standard). It's about some CPU vendors trying to game things.

Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 21, 2021 21:40 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link]

Whether the people working on something are smart or not has nothing to do with whether or not it's being done by a committee. A committee of geniuses working in their element is still a committee. Committees can be a great way of doing things. There are any number of famous, successful, and greatly loved projects that were done by committee. Almost all of the popular translations of the Bible were done by committee, for instance.

I think that points to the big strength and the big danger of committees. A well run committee can get the minds of all its members working on a problem so they can do something none of them could manage alone. A poorly run committee puts the minds of its members in opposition, so the group gets less done than any of them could manage alone. The difference is whether the members can put aside their parochial interests to advance the good of the project. If they can, the committee can be a huge success. If they can't the committee will almost surely bog down into infighting. Vendors trying to game the system are a great example of the weakness of a committee structure; the members are so wrapped up by their own interests that the project as a whole suffers.

Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 22, 2021 10:41 UTC (Sat) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link]

I'll convey your thoughts on this to the NVMe committee, the SCSI committee, the C committee, the SQL committee, the IEEE 754 committee and the USB committee.

Committees can be bad, but they can also be very, very good.

Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM

Posted May 23, 2021 7:40 UTC (Sun) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404) [Link]

What standards do you like that weren't done by committee? So do you think the metric system is an epic boondoggle, and we all should be using slugs to measure mass?


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