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[x-post @[email protected]] Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.

Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

i dont even know how to get a risc v processor

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Pine64 sells single board computers with Risc-V

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Get a BeagleBoard! https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beaglev-ahead

Edit: or a Star64! https://pine64.com/product-category/star64/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They’re mostly in SBCs and dev systems right now. I know StarFive makes RISC V SBCs, and I think Pine64 has a RISC V tablet and SBC available. It’s all pretty low end and intended for dev work from what I can tell though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

BeagleBone has two RISCV SBC recently. One uses a chip from Microchip which is partially an FPGA also, and the other one uses a chip from a Chinese company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Most of them are embedded into stuff like storage controllers for SSDs (Western Digital is using RISC-V for all future storage controllers) or server chips, but you can get development boards on Alibaba which are at best similar or just ahead of the Raspberry pi4 atm