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What kind of hardware does one run this on. Are there SBCs in the wild running RISC-V? Or are people running this in emulation? I’ve been a little out of the lo
by peatmoss 9y ago
What kind of hardware does one run this on. Are there SBCs in the wild running RISC-V? Or are people running this in emulation? I’ve been a little out of the loop in terms of what’s available.
Exciting to see any movement on there being more / more open architectures out there. Would be amazing if there were ever workstation competitive performance from RISC-V
- vhodges 9y agohttps://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed It's still a bit early unless you're porting a distro. These are to help get the software side up to snuff.
- rwmj 9y agoWe're likely a year or longer away from high performance cheap RISC-V boards. As the sister comment mentions, the HiFive Unleashed will run this, but it's an expensive development board, likely won't have great performance, and will probably have bugs (going from my experience with other pre-release hardware). However there is a very stable QEMU branch (see readme.txt file in the link) which supports multiple vCPUs and is fast enough for development if your host hardware is reasonable. The image has all the things you'd expect from a Linux development environment: you can ssh in, there's GCC 7.3.1, Perl 5.26, Python 2 & 3, you can create user accounts, use systemd etc.