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RISC-V SBCs are on the market in abundance and they are affordable.

• ori_b 3y ago
  Which come with well documented peripherals? The CPU is boring -- x86 instruction encoding is a bit ugly, but it works. It's all the stuff hanging off them that make the difference, and as far as I'm aware, risc-v hasn't done anything interesting here. It hasn't even enhanced discoverability (eg, by hanging internal peripherals off a virtual PCI bus).
  • ndsipa_pomu 3y ago
    Risc-v is interesting due to legal/licensing reasons rather than technological reasons. It certainly seems a good fit with ideological software
    • ori_b 3y ago
      And the peripherals are far more interesting from a license perspective.
    • wwtrv 3y ago
      > It certainly seems a good fit with ideological software I don't see how could it be more open that ARM longterm since there are no incentives to release high-end core designs for free. I mean I full see the potential for more competition between different companies designing proprietary cores which seems like an improvement over x86 from the consumer perspective but that's it..
  • snvzz 3y ago
    >Which come with well documented peripherals? Refer to OS-A Platform. RISC-V is going beyond anybody else, standardizing peripherals that are common and very much solved problems, but aren't standardized elsewhere. Things such as GPIOs, watchdogs, uart, timers and what not.