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Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

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Re: Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

meuk wrote: post #10
asveikau wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whoa, I had considered the unleashed board to play around with and bookmarked it, but they are not very overt with the price. I didn't realize it was $1000 USD. You have to click through twice to discover it.

You might consider the HiFive board. It's around 50 dollar, a more appropriate price for something to play around with.

The hifive is marketed as an arduino-like, but at 320mHz it seems like it should be able to run a stripped-down Linux distro. Not fast, but if Linux can run on puny MIPS boards...

Re: Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

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Post by boomlinde »

kstenerud wrote: post #12

I'm surprised at how m68k was rescued from oblivion in 2013... Who is using it?

I suspected that it had something to do with ColdFire. It seems that was partly true, but another interesting factor was apparently ARAnyM (an Atari 68k ST/TT/Falcon emulator) which can conveniently run a Linux system: https://grep.be/blog/en/computer/debian/m68k/arrakis/

Re: Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

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Post by Wiles_7 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #11
meuk wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might consider the HiFive board. It's around 50 dollar, a more appropriate price for something to play around with.

The hifive is marketed as an arduino-like, but at 320mHz it seems like it should be able to run a stripped-down Linux distro. Not fast , but if Linux can run on puny MIPS boards...

You can run Linux on at Atmega664. Not well, but you can.

https://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%2...

Re: Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

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Post by stan_rogers »

sschueller wrote: post #3

Any "Pi'esc" boards available yet? I would love to run Buster on a RISC-V board. Seeedstudio has an "Arduino'esc" RISC-V board for around USD 30 which looks very interesting. [1] This board [2] also looks very interesting but is around USD 1000 and I can't find any comparisons on performance to a "regular" PC. I know these things are like comparing apples to oranges but I would like to know how for example a browser…

Just informational: the esc sound meaning "-like" is rendered as esque. We "borrowed" it from the French, and we're not giving it back.

Re: Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

#17

Post by 0x76 »

sschueller wrote: post #3

Any "Pi'esc" boards available yet? I would love to run Buster on a RISC-V board. Seeedstudio has an "Arduino'esc" RISC-V board for around USD 30 which looks very interesting. [1] This board [2] also looks very interesting but is around USD 1000 and I can't find any comparisons on performance to a "regular" PC. I know these things are like comparing apples to oranges but I would like to know how for example a browser…

Yeah would love to have a RISC-V board with similar performance as a Pi and that isn't as expensive as the hifive unleashed. Haven't found anything yet.

Re: Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

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Post by ncmncm »

They say Rust support is blocked by having no RISC-V backed for LLVM, and no Rust Gcc front-end. But I thought there was a working Gcc front-end, just without the borrow checker, which is superfluous for code generation. Maybe it is for an old version of the language, and can't build the current library?

Re: Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019

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Post by tyingq »

0x76 wrote: post #17
sschueller wrote: post #3

Any "Pi'esc" boards available yet? I would love to run Buster on a RISC-V board. Seeedstudio has an "Arduino'esc" RISC-V board for around USD 30 which looks very interesting. [1] This board [2] also looks very interesting but is around USD 1000 and I can't find any comparisons on performance to a "regular" PC. I know these things are like comparing apples to oranges but I would like to know how for example a browser…

Yeah would love to have a RISC-V board with similar performance as a Pi and that isn't as expensive as the hifive unleashed. Haven't found anything yet.

The likely source will be lowrisc.org. Several folks that were involved with the Rpi are on the project.

"We will produce a SoC design to populate a low-cost community development board and to act as an ideal starting point for derivative open-source and commercial designs." - https://www.lowrisc.org/docs/untether-v0.2/

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