RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available

[mihies@programming.dev]

Around the Raspberry 5 or lower level from what I read. More for developers than for practical use, but then again, I don't have real world experience with it.

[hperrin@lemmy.ca]

Well, kind of 3 companies.

Intel and AMD both have rights to x86_64, since they both held patents used by it. In 2021, AMD’s patents expired.

Then there’s ARM, which is solely owned by Arm Holdings.

But yes, it’s still very much a big problem, and I really hope RISC-V succeeds to solve that problem. Licensing core designs is a much better motive and business model than licensing an entire ISA.

[hperrin@lemmy.ca]

Right now, not very. Basically only open source software can run on it, and only if it’s either exceptionally portable or has been tweaked to compile for it.

In the future, hopefully this is usable for general computing, but right now it’s basically only usable for R&D or niche applications.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

They also sell bare chassis, if you need something to put it in.

[bilb@lem.monster]

Probably even worse than that.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/visionfive2-riscv-benchmarks/2

This has less RAM, but it's the same CPU. You can see it's consistently 3 to 4 times slower than a Raspberry Pi 4! They are not joking about this not being for general use.

[buckykat@hexbear.net]

Well, the second sentence of the linked post is:

This is very much a developer-focused board to help accelerate maturing the software ecosystem around RISC-V, so we recommend waiting for future RISC-V products if you’re looking for a consumer-ready experience.

So I'm gonna go with not very.

[mixedunivers@discuss.tchncs.de]

My hope is that in 5 years its supported enough to run on a Homeserver, without config and treiber issus. I hope Projekt like these give enough uplift for developers to get this train startet

[merthyr1831@lemmy.ml]

Thanks to box64, a lot of software can actually run on RISCV when using Linux, but the performance is just about pushing Raspberry Pi 4 levels at best.

But also, if you have source code for some software available in ARM/X64 you can usually just compile it for yourself - A lot of compilers already support RISCV, but obviously distros won't bother maintaining apps in lesser used architectures

[lengau@midwest.social]

The native performance of this board is similar to a Raspberry Pi 3. With Box64 it'll be significantly worse.

There's quite a push behind RISC-V now, in part because China seems to like the idea of not being tied to American or British companies for their CPU architecture. We'll see whether it actually pass out or not.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Interesting. Does it support WiFi? Do any OSes support it?

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

We all read that. They were asking for an elaboration

[buckykat@hexbear.net]

Nobody reads the articles