BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux • Hacker News Board

> BeagleV™ is the first affordable RISC-V board designed to run Linux. Based on the RISC-V architecture, BeagleV™ pushes open-source to the next level and gives developers more freedom and power to innovate and design industry-leading solutions with an affordable introductory price at $149.

Re: BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

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Post by messe » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 1:39 PM UTC

pantalaimon wrote: post #3

What does affordable mean in that context? There is no price on the website. edit: CNX Software has some more info [0] - it's $119, still a far cry from a Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi [0] https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/01/13/beaglev-powerful-ope...

$149 for 8GB of RAM on a RISC-V board is very affordable compared to the previous options.

Re: BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

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Post by fctorial » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 1:39 PM UTC

Where's the source code?

Re: BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

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Post by karakanb » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

The 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.

Re: BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

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Post by cmrdporcupine » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

Interesting, 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.

Re: BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

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Post by StreamBright » Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 1:49 PM UTC

messe wrote: post #6

pantalaimon wrote: post #3

What does affordable mean in that context? There is no price on the website. edit: CNX Software has some more info [0] - it's $119, still a far cry from a Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi [0] https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/01/13/beaglev-powerful-ope...

$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.