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Interesting. Does it support WiFi? Do any OSes support it?
Linux has support for almost any architecture you can think of. Remember, free software can be compiled from source, which makes it comparatively easy to port to different architectures.
My hope is that in 5 years its supported enough to run on a Homeserver, without config and treiber issus. I hope Projekt like these give enough uplift for developers to get this train startet
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How usable is this? I don't know much about RISC-V. But when I DL software I only ever see X64 and ARM options.
Thanks to box64, a lot of software can actually run on RISCV when using Linux, but the performance is just about pushing Raspberry Pi 4 levels at best.
But also, if you have source code for some software available in ARM/X64 you can usually just compile it for yourself - A lot of compilers already support RISCV, but obviously distros won't bother maintaining apps in lesser used architectures
The native performance of this board is similar to a Raspberry Pi 3. With Box64 it'll be significantly worse.
There's quite a push behind RISC-V now, in part because China seems to like the idea of not being tied to American or British companies for their CPU architecture. We'll see whether it actually pass out or not.
Right now, not very. Basically only open source software can run on it, and only if it’s either exceptionally portable or has been tweaked to compile for it.
In the future, hopefully this is usable for general computing, but right now it’s basically only usable for R&D or niche applications.
The path forward for RISC-V is getting it into more developers’ hands though, so having it available for really nice hardware like the Framework is awesome.
Around the Raspberry 5 or lower level from what I read. More for developers than for practical use, but then again, I don't have real world experience with it.
Probably even worse than that.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/visionfive2-riscv-benchmarks/2
This has less RAM, but it's the same CPU. You can see it's consistently 3 to 4 times slower than a Raspberry Pi 4! They are not joking about this not being for general use.
A Dev board like this is pretty cool, though. It could help pave the way to a performant board later.