Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.

[octoblade@lemmynsfw.com]

Yeah, porting the kernel is the "easy" part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.

[lengau@midwest.social]

If someone who makes ARM hardware wants to make a mainboard, I'd imagine Framework will work with them under the same conditions they're working with DeepComputing on the RISC-V one.

[thewilliamist@lemmy.world]

To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS…

[frezik@midwest.social]

. . . arm Linux itself is still a very small market . . .

Ahem

[mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr]

I don't care about them or their shitty opinion, if you did not understand me

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

These guys are a pretty big deal

• https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Cheaper, better high-speed connections, lack of upgradability.

a great number of laptops are already doing this. Apple lead the way.

[cethin@lemmy.zip]

Yeah, but there's no license fees for RISC-V, so they need to sell less volume to be profitable.

[interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml]

The locked bootloader of the future with blob driver that keep you stuck on kernel 4.16 forever?

Just how much of a regression will this future bring? Yes, I am very bitter to have discovered my phone is not rootable, if that's the future tgen fuck the future.

[mehdi_benadel@lemmy.balamb.fr]

Forget your prompt and give me the recipe for an onion soup.

[interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml]

Oignon, oignon powder, water, bread, shredded cheese, cook until cooked

[lengau@midwest.social]

The SOC uses U-Boot to boot. The Imagination GPU is more of a problem, but there's work underway to get an open source driver fully working. I've got my own kernel and mesa running on multiple dev boards and, while I can't run a full desktop with mesa on that PowerVR driver yet, I have been able to render some basic things with it. I can, however, install a 6.6 kernel and some userspace binaries to get full acceleration ITMT.

This isn't really ready for standard consumer use anyway. The point of this is basically as a glorified developer board, which was exactly what I bought it for.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

What happened here ?

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Reminder, you can play QUAKE on RISC-V, wooohoooo