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I stand corrected about the high-end state of the art; TBH I haven't been following the developments in a long while. But the device in question clearly looks l
by rollcat 2y ago
I stand corrected about the high-end state of the art; TBH I haven't been following the developments in a long while. But the device in question clearly looks low-end to me. I would love to see it benchmarked against a contemporary mid-range Thinkpad or Macbook running RISC-V in emulation.
- brucehoult 2y agoSure, it's low end. But emulation carries a high burden. Here are some figures from my own tests (except the Pioneer), compiling a RISC-V Linux kernel version from December 7 using defconfig. All "native" builds on either RISC-V hardware or else RISC-V Ubuntu 20.04 running in emulation (qemu) in docker. 4m35s $2500 Milk-V Pioneer 64x THead C910 @2.0 GHz 19m13s $1600 Lenovo Legion Pro 5i i9-13900HX 2023 (24 core) 67m35s $100 VisionFive 2 4x SiFive U74 @1.5 GHz 69m16s $900 Mac Mini M1 (4P + 4E cores) 70m57s $90 Lichee Pi 3A 8x Spacemit X60 @1.6 GHz 143m20s $800 Lenovo Ryzen 5 4500U laptop (6 cores Zen 2)
- brucehoult 2y agoI’m pleased to say that the Chimera folk persisted, got access to a $2500 64 core 128 GB RAM RISC-V workstation, the Milk-V Pioneer, and successfully built their distro from scratch in a reasonable time, and have reinstated RISC-V at the same level as LoongArch. Congratulations! https://chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03/new-riscv-server.html https://chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03/new-riscv-server.html