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Ubuntu will not support RISC-V CPUs without RVA23 support going further, so this is stuck on 24.04 forever. There is no official Debian image either, and the Ub
by antonkochubey 1y ago
Ubuntu will not support RISC-V CPUs without RVA23 support going further, so this is stuck on 24.04 forever. There is no official Debian image either, and the Ubuntu version uses fixed kernel 6.6.47 with no further updates (it is not even installed from a repo).
I own one since a couple months ago but I already regret the purchase.
- magicalhippo 1y ago> this is stuck on 24.04 forever But as a basis for IoT projects that's perfectly fine. They're meant to be install and forget.
- dotdi 1y agoonly if you find it acceptable to have your IoT projects participate in botnets down the line, I guess.
- magicalhippo 1y agoDistributed computing is a perfect fit for IoT devices which mostly sit idle. Put those cycles to use!
- haunter 1y ago>I own one since a couple months ago but I already regret the purchase. This is me with every single SBC
- antonkochubey 1y agoI owned every generation of Raspberry Pi and I still use the 5, 4, 3, and even a 2 Model B. Their software/ecosystem support is unmatched by any other SBC line.
- irusensei 1y agoMy pair of RockPro64s refuse to go to the drawer. Every time they are about to retire something comes up that is the perfect job for those machines. One is currently running Scripted to integrate my unifi cameras to HomeKit. Zero fans. I've equipped the other one with 2 beefy 22TB HDDs, Tailscale and Minio. I'll send to my parent's house to act as remote backups.
- proxysna 1y agoBuilding Debian for this board is pretty easy nowadays. You can also find prebuilt images.
- mwcampbell 1y agoWant to share any links, particularly about building one's own Debian image? I'm especially curious about the bootloader.
- proxysna 1y agohttps://romanrm.net/rv-debian https://romanrm.net/rv-debian A good example. There is also a link to builscripts.
- RainyDayTmrw 1y agoKinda tricky. Last time this came up, the consensus was that approximately nothing commercially available supported RVA23 at the time.
- brucehoult 1y agoNo. EXACTLY nothing. The RVA23 spec was ratified 11 months ago, today. There is zero reason to expect commercially available hardware in that time. However there should be next year, and quite likely a couple of different choices by the time Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is officially released. Waiting until 28.04 for RVA23-optimised code would be far too late.
- ge96 1y agoFunny how software matters I bought a specific eink tablet and the lag and choppiness in drawing made me immediately sell it for something more well known. Sucked too as I lost $300 but hopefully helps open source community anyway
- sidewndr46 1y agoIt's actually worse than that, even getting updates kills the image. I did manage to work around it. but overall I don't consider it a platform for anything I would depend on. It's fun for experimentation, that is about it My notes from that little project are here - https://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/orange-pi-rv2-first-look-kernel-watchdog-bug.html https://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/orange-pi-rv2-first-look-ker...
- dlcarrier 1y agoUbuntu is the worst of the Debian based Linux distributions. Give MX Linux a try. It's rarely evangelized, unlike other Linux distributions, but it has a surprisingly high user base, and for good reason. Everything it has added to Debian enhances it, and it doesn't try to promote any services, like Ubuntu does with Canonical's services. Regardless of the Linux distribution, it's still way to early to get good support for RISC-V. Current products are good enough for general development, but RVA23 was ratified less than a year ago, and I don't know of any designs started after the ratification that have hit the market yet. Once that's the case, it should be easier to get universal support, but until then, every RISC-V SBC is a one-off development board.