Intel and AMD Form x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group joined by Linus Torvalds and Red Hat to Accelerate Innovation for Developers and Customers
Posted by fmbernardo@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 28 comments
ActiveCommittee8202@reddit
Means actually nothing for Linux PCs
jaaval@reddit
There are probably going to be some ISA changes in the coming few years. Some of them won't be backwards compatible. So there is going to be some situations where you are required to choose the correct OS version to get the latest hardware support.
phoenixero@reddit
Developers developers developers
patrlim1@reddit
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
epasveer@reddit
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
MatchingTurret@reddit
Fending off ARM and RISC-V...
blackcain@reddit
Intel is behind RISC-V. Arm not so much since they recently divested themselves from all Arm holdings.
MatchingTurret@reddit
Pretty sure that they would prefer to sell you a x86 chip rather than a RISC-V one.
SillyGigaflopses@reddit
Depends.
If they can sell you(or rather corporate clients) hundreds of thousands of RISC-V chips that can be manufactured on an older node - they’ll gladly do that.
Secret_Combo@reddit
Isn't competiton great?
fundation-ia@reddit
Curious to see Tim sweeney, but not someone from Valve
reven80@reddit
Maybe because Unreal Engine is widely used?
leddy231@reddit
Source engine powers a lot of popular games, Counter strike and Dota included. Valve is also a hardware vendor with the Steam deck, and is doing great work with the proton comparability layer on linux. Would make a lot of sense for Valve to be involved.
InterestedSkeptic@reddit
Valve is also working to help Arch get things like ARM support iirc. Source may power a lot, but nowhere even remotely close to as much as Unreal Engine.
Irverter@reddit
But unreal engine is more popular and (iirc) has a more active development. Source engine is mainly used for Valve's games and mods of their games.
gplusplus314@reddit
Valve doesn’t write kernels, so not really.
S48GS@reddit
Valve made Steam deck - on AMD hardware.
And Valve invested alot in AMD-opensource graphics.
May point on some "conflict of interests" - there was leaks that Valve experimenting with ARM-chips - so maybe AMD not very happy about it.
And seeing AMD+Intel - when Intel also hate ARM.
nightblackdragon@reddit
The ARM version of Proton was recently spotted in testing. It is possible that Valve might be interested in expanding their support to other architectures and if that is the case then there is no reason for them to join x86 advisory group.
AndrewNeo@reddit
Valve probably wants to spend their effort on the middle and top of the experience rather than the bottom. If they could get everything running perfect on ARM I'm sure they would be happy to go with it
Ok-Anywhere-9416@reddit
Clearly they're concerned about a bit of everything. Intel doing "hm", AMD doing also "meh", ARM comes to try something but also there's still something for them. I'm also hearing about RISC-V, which I'm still very ignorant about.
Anyways, it's a nice super-group. Perhaps Mr Torvalds will manage to make everyone reason a small little bit.
swn999@reddit
Ditch the support for legacy code.
monocasa@reddit
Torvalds is a good choice even outside of Linux's current power.
He originally wrote Linux to have a kernel that was super focused on using all of the new features of the 386, and parlayed that into a day job in the 90s working on the Transmeta Crusoe, due to knowing the dark corners of x86 like the back of his hand.
gplusplus314@reddit
Transmeta. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
thecapent@reddit
They will began to license the ISA for everybody? No? So this will fail.
ThinkingWinnie@reddit
Hopefully not.
jhansonxi@reddit
I'd settle for less bugs.
ManinaPanina@reddit
They're scared.
Far-9947@reddit
Great to hear news like this!