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  • [LINK] RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture

    From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 27 08:53:20 2023
    RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture
    By Michael Larabel, 23 July 2023
    - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Official-RISC-V

    "Debian 13 "Trixie" has been aiming for official RISC-V support and
    indeed it will happen: RISC-V has now been promoted to an official
    Debian CPU architecture.

    While long available as a Debian port, as of this weekend RISC-V
    64-bit is now considered an official Debian architecture.

    Debian developer Aurelien Jarno notes though in the announcement
    that the official archive for RISC-V 64-bit is rather bare at the
    moment but will be building out soon:" ...

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 27 08:29:23 2023
    Am 27.07.2023 schrieb [email protected]d (Computer Nerd Kev):

    Debian developer Aurelien Jarno notes though in the announcement
    that the official archive for RISC-V 64-bit is rather bare at the
    moment but will be building out soon:"

    What are the plans for hardware manufacturers?
    Which hardware do they plan to manufacture?

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Fri Jul 28 09:17:24 2023
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:
    Am 27.07.2023 schrieb [email protected]d (Computer Nerd Kev):
    Debian developer Aurelien Jarno notes though in the announcement
    that the official archive for RISC-V 64-bit is rather bare at the
    moment but will be building out soon:"

    What are the plans for hardware manufacturers?

    SiFive have been announcing high-spec RISC-V CPU chips and showing
    demos of desktop-like applications for years. Now various board
    manufacturers are starting to make them available for real.

    Which hardware do they plan to manufacture?

    Here's a review of one RISC-V Raspberry Pi clone: https://hackaday.com/2023/03/06/the-future-of-risc-v-and-the-visionfive-2-single-board-computer/

    There's also a microATX motherboard supporting a 64-core RISC-V at
    up to 2GHz currently in a successful crowd funding campaign here: https://www.crowdsupply.com/milkv/milk-v-pioneer

    SiFive released a Mini-ITX RISC-V board suitable for a low-power
    desktop in 2021, but it's sold out and they're still working on
    the next model. https://hothardware.com/reviews/hifive-unmatched-a-risc-v-proposition

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sat Jul 29 11:39:25 2023
    In article <u9t2s4$1jvmf$[email protected]>, Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote: >Am 27.07.2023 schrieb [email protected]d (Computer Nerd Kev):
    Debian developer Aurelien Jarno notes though in the announcement
    that the official archive for RISC-V 64-bit is rather bare at the
    moment but will be building out soon:"

    What are the plans for hardware manufacturers?
    Which hardware do they plan to manufacture?

    That's kind of the big question. There's a small array of RISC-V stuff out there, and because the architecture is pretty clean it doesn't require the complexity of modern Intel systems. But so far everything has been built on relatively old and slow processes.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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