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Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC

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Re: Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC

#3
I love the PoE support! I wish more SBCs and even nuc/nuc-clones would start adding support! It’s nice being able to consolidate power supplies/deploying to places where only ethernet is present (which anyone can deploy legally unlike AC wires)

Re: Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC

#4
post #3

I love the PoE support! I wish more SBCs and even nuc/nuc-clones would start adding support! It’s nice being able to consolidate power supplies/deploying to places where only ethernet is present (which anyone can deploy legally unlike AC wires)

although not ideal, external gigabit POE splitters are ~10 euros

Re: Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC

#7
This is super cool! It has a little bit of everything I'd want in a small project board - PoE, mini PCIe, RPi case compatibility, lots of RAM.

OpenBSD has some support for the StarFive chip, so perhaps this device could run OpenBSD in the future:

https://www.openbsd.org/riscv64.html

Re: Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC

#9
post #6

Apparently not recently discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377439

Different board, same company

This MILK-V reposts are getting terious. Three new RISC-V boards, competing with forms of mATX (Pioneer), Pi Zero (Duo), and Pi (Mars). Pioneer[0][1][2][5], Duo [2][3][7][8], Mars [4][5][6] (and now this)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36009946 (73pts, 14 comments) [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064138 (2pts, 0 comments) [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36064183 (18pts, 2 comments) [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36080912 (5pts, 6 comments) [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36115253 (2pts, 1 comment) [5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36144188 (27pts, 20 comments) [6]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36148815 (3pts, 0 comments) [7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36188793 (69 points, 26 comments) [8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36377439 (197 points, 107 comments)

Re: Milk-V Mars: RISC-V credit card size SBC

#10
there are so many SBCs these days.

if you use them for hobby projects, many of them are fine.

if you ever want to convert your project to something commercial, I would still consider raspberry pi and beaglebone instead based on software maturity and community support and their ecosystem at large.

I really like NXP's i.MX6/8/9 chips, I wish there are some i.MX SBCs as popular as RPi and Beagles, for both hobby and commercial applications.

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