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I have a starfive visionfive V2 [1] board at home to play with riscv. Can be had fairly quickly from Aliexpress for ~ 100 bucks. Very similar in nature to a ra
by ur-whale 3y ago
I have a starfive visionfive V2 [1] board at home to play with riscv. Can be had fairly quickly from Aliexpress for ~ 100 bucks.
Very similar in nature to a raspi, but still a bit rough around the edges:
- getting debian up an running is not yet straightforward
- this is not exactly a speed demon (it's actually dog slow compared to an rpi 4)
- some feature aren't in the kernel yet (eg some USB devices don't work)
- support for HDMI is still clunky
- [EDIT]: one very nice thing, it has an NVME port and you can choose (via dip switches) to boot from either of NVME, Flash, EMMC or UART (see page 46 of [2])
Mine boots from NVME and it's really sweet, it's one major mission feature for the rpi family.
BUT: it's a very usable computer, and great if you want to play with RISCV assembly on actual metal (outside of a qemu box, that is).
[1] https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards
[2] https://doc-en.rvspace.org/VisionFive2/PDF/VisionFive2_QSG.pdf https://doc-en.rvspace.org/VisionFive2/PDF/VisionFive2_QSG.p...