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I see a great future for RISCV, but at the current point it's so far behind everyone else in performance, it's nice to play around but not fast enough for anyth

I see a great future for RISCV, but at the current point it's so far behind everyone else in performance, it's nice to play around but not fast enough for anything except web surfing on a GUI. (Wanted to switch my SBC work from ARM to RISCV but it looks that you need to put in a lot of effort to get Linux reliably going). [Edit] ARM has less legacy than x86, but RISCV has less legacy than ARM. Intels move to drop 16 and 32 bit modes in the future and some commands seems to show that dropping legacy makes your CPU faster or more energy efficient (less complex) if nothing else you can replace the die space with caches.

Shawnj2 3y ago
An ARM framework main board, either using a cheap MediaTek/similar smartphone grade processor, making the main board a Pi Compute Module breakout, or maybe one of the Windows capable ARM processors would be a nice way to sell a low cost/high power efficiency framework.
snvzz 3y ago
>(Wanted to switch my SBC work from ARM to RISCV but it looks that you need to put in a lot of effort to get Linux reliably going). I got a VisionFive2 (~$100) and I am impressed with the progress made since it shipped in February.