Foone🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: to explain something for anyone who hasn't read the RP2350 datasheet: It doesn't do ...
to explain something for anyone who hasn't read the RP2350 datasheet:
It doesn't do any code-morphing or translation or anything. The CPU is designed with 4 cores, but two slots for connecting to the rest of the CPU fabric.
So at boot it selects which two cores to power on. So it can be 2xARM or 2xRISCV or (technically!) 1xARM and 1xRISCV. There's no fancy stuff where there's a single CPU arch that can run multiple things: it's just multiple heterogynous cores.
It doesn't do any code-morphing or translation or anything. The CPU is designed with 4 cores, but two slots for connecting to the rest of the CPU fabric.
So at boot it selects which two cores to power on. So it can be 2xARM or 2xRISCV or (technically!) 1xARM and 1xRISCV. There's no fancy stuff where there's a single CPU arch that can run multiple things: it's just multiple heterogynous cores.