What kind of performance is expected from this compared to say the RPi 4B? Any noteworthy changes in performance characteristics (e.g better/worse I/O or something)?
BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux
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#12Is the SiFive U74 open source?
I know the RISC-V ISA is, but I thought the SiFive designs were proprietary.
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#13Arstechnica coverage: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/seeed-and-beagleboar...
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#14Is there a list of RISC-V CPUs in production someplace?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
$149 for 8GB of RAM on a RISC-V board is very affordable compared to the previous options.
For that price you can get a decent SOC with ARM64 too.
You pay more to have something Free. Software people have yet to realise this reality of the hardware market.
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#17The website is super slow. It downloads 7.66MB of files, and it took 1.05min to load for me on a 2020 MBP with 150Mbps bandwidth and ~15ms latency.
From the Guidelines: Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.
Still, the page loads in ~3secs on my 2012 i7-3770K with 100Mbps...
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#18Interesting, I might get myself one of these to play with. But the board has an HDMI output, however the description doesn't describe the specifications on display processor / GPU functionality, or even if it's just a simple framebuffer, etc. There's specifications on Video processing, but I get the impression this is for camera / video input, not output.
According to [0] the first revision will just have a framebuffer, later ones an unspecified Imagination GPU.
0 - https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/01/13/beaglev-powerful-ope...
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
$149 for 8GB of RAM on a RISC-V board is very affordable compared to the previous options.
For that price you can get a decent SOC with ARM64 too.
That's not the point. Risc-V machines are not yet price competitive, but presumably will be at some point. This is for people who are interested enough in Risc-V to spend some time and a ~$100 on it, but not thousands of of dollars. And the main reason many people are interested in Risc-V over Arm is that it's open and license free.
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#20Interesting, I might get myself one of these to play with. But the board has an HDMI output, however the description doesn't describe the specifications on display processor / GPU functionality, or even if it's just a simple framebuffer, etc. There's specifications on Video processing, but I get the impression this is for camera / video input, not output.
Arstechnica says this:
"The initial pilot run of BeagleV will use the Vision DSP hardware as a graphics processor, allowing a full graphical desktop environment under Fedora. Following hardware runs will include an unspecified model of Imagine GPU as well."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/seeed-and-beagleboar...