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Dunno. The idea is neat. But at this point we don't even have a working, and reasonably supported RISC-V SBC. Sure, there are many small boards, and I also have

Dunno. The idea is neat. But at this point we don't even have a working, and reasonably supported RISC-V SBC. Sure, there are many small boards, and I also have some goodness from Pine64, but they are still mostly toys. And this comes from the heart of China, from a company I have never heard of until it started to get spammed over HN like 2 weeks ago. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the hardware is really nice. But they are not very famous about supporting things long term neither software- nor hardwarewise.

tlhunter 3y ago
I find it hard to trust anyone whose avatar is pixel art or a still from an anime.
speed_spread 3y ago
One thing I appreciate here is the UEFI support, which in theory decouples the OS from the machine and opens up the space for standard RISC-V distributions that can run on boards from multiple manufacturers, creating a circle of virtue. This is also what's missing from the embedded RISC-V space - a standard boot process. Without that you're mostly stuck with the vendor supplied distro(s) forever.
snvzz 3y ago
>But at this point we don't even have a working, and reasonably supported RISC-V SBC. VisionFive2 (based on JH7110) is as close as it gets, and much better than your average ARM SBC, as the SoC and SBC vendor itself works on upstream support[0]. As of recently, there's even UEFI. A work in progress, but already capable of booting Linux. 0. https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan
lvturner 3y ago
The chip provider is a subsiduary of Bitmain and it seems that MilkV have quite close ties with them, time will tell if this provides for long term support or not. I'm not sure the statement about "Support things long term neither software nor hardware wise" (maybe I'm taking this statement out of context, but it seemed directly linked to the firm being based in China...) is entirely fair - some examples being, Tencent, Huawei, Ali(cloud), ZTE, TP-Link, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Tuya, etc and then more on the maker side of things companies like Creality and of course Espressif.

tlhunter 3y ago

I find it hard to trust anyone whose avatar is pixel art or a still from an anime.

speed_spread 3y ago

One thing I appreciate here is the UEFI support, which in theory decouples the OS from the machine and opens up the space for standard RISC-V distributions that can run on boards from multiple manufacturers, creating a circle of virtue. This is also what's missing from the embedded RISC-V space - a standard boot process. Without that you're mostly stuck with the vendor supplied distro(s) forever.

snvzz 3y ago

>But at this point we don't even have a working, and reasonably supported RISC-V SBC. VisionFive2 (based on JH7110) is as close as it gets, and much better than your average ARM SBC, as the SoC and SBC vendor itself works on upstream support[0]. As of recently, there's even UEFI. A work in progress, but already capable of booting Linux. 0. https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan

lvturner 3y ago

The chip provider is a subsiduary of Bitmain and it seems that MilkV have quite close ties with them, time will tell if this provides for long term support or not. I'm not sure the statement about "Support things long term neither software nor hardware wise" (maybe I'm taking this statement out of context, but it seemed directly linked to the firm being based in China...) is entirely fair - some examples being, Tencent, Huawei, Ali(cloud), ZTE, TP-Link, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Tuya, etc and then more on the maker side of things companies like Creality and of course Espressif.