RISC-V only gives you the instruction set and standard, it does not tell you how to actually do it. The way you handle the microarchitecture internally is up to you.
Marcuss2
joined 1 year ago
I don't think there are any benefits compared to RISC-V with custom instructions, maintaining your own toolchain is also extra work which could benefit everyone with RISC-V
I wish they pivoted to RISC-V instead of their proprietary architecture
I don't have good experience with Manjaro, if you want to go Arch based, I can recommend EndeavourOS
I say this as an Arch user
Fair, but I still think they should switch. I don't think it would be too difficult anyway. It should mostly amount to rewrite of the decoder as can be inferred from the fact that it is mostly a superset of MIPS64.
The perceived benefits, are being independent of the west on technology. Which RISC-V already provides.