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PicoRio: The Raspberry Pi-Like Small-Board Computer for RISC-V

• CameronNemo 6y ago
  In the last discussion about the PicoRio, there were concerns about the Imagination PowerVR GPU in the phase 2 device (which will be late next year according to this blog post, with phase 1 coming late this year). Comment about those concerns here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380452 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380452 It seems like they are addressing that somewhat: > Imagination embraces the RISC-V ecosystem > Imagination’s PowerVR GPU Driver (DDK v1.13 release onwards) supports RISC-V as a target application processor and will be easily integrated with the PicoRio single-board computer platform. > Imagination is also creating a new open-source GPU driver to provide a complete, up-streamed open-source kernel and user-mode driver stack to support Vulkan® and OpenGL® ES within the Mesa framework. It will be openly developed with intermediate milestones visible to the open-source community and a complete open-source Linux driver will be delivered by Q2 2022. Imagination will work with RIOS to run the open-source GPU driver on the PicoRio open-source platform. It sounds like the proprietary driver will be available when the first phase 2 devices ship, but an open source driver will be available ~6 months later. If it does materialize, this will be quite an open platform. I will not purchase a phase 2 or 3 device until it does, though. Regardless, I will probably purchase a phase 1 device (which is headless / has no GPU).
  • core-questions 6y ago
    I'm also down for a headless little networked device, as long as it has some kind of serial console support. Any idea when these things are targeted for sale?
    • CameronNemo 6y ago
      "Late this year"... So probably in December sometime.