Gen 1 Raspberry Pis everywhere are quaking in their hats.

Also long live open source instruction sets! Super curious to see where
RISC-V goes.

Best Regards,
-Thomas Scott


On Jun 18, 2024 at 10:09:30 PM, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> From the blog post:
>
> This Mainboard is extremely compelling, but we want to be clear that in
> this generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers,
> and hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V. The peripheral set
> and performance aren’t yet competitive with our Intel and AMD-powered
> Framework Laptop Mainboards. *This board also has soldered memory and
> uses MicroSD cards and eMMC for storage, both of which are limitations of
> the processor. *It is a great way to start playing with RISC-V though
> inside of a thin, light, refined laptop.
>
>
> Also, it's not very powerful; a Raspberry Pi 4 blows it out of the water:
> https://www.phoronix.com/review/visionfive2-riscv-benchmarks
>
> Unless you're just wanting to tinker with RISC-V, this isn't going to be
> your next laptop.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024, at 7:01 PM, Austin Godber via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> I was hoping for an ARM option.
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> Am 18. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so:
>
> moin moin,
>
> >
> https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing
> >
> > So now they have a RISC V CPU option coming... Interesting.
>
> Cool. It'd be fun to play with that :)
>
> More importantly to me, it's partner developed hardware. It shows
> Framework trying to build an ecosystem around modular hardware.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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