RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13 is now available
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Interesting. Does it support WiFi? Do any OSes support it?
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We all read that. They were asking for an elaboration
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Nobody reads the articles
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Linux has support for almost any architecture you can think of. Remember, free software can be compiled from source, which makes it comparatively easy to port to different architectures.
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Very recent repost: https://lemmy.ml/post/25608778
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This might be interesting with Gentoo. I know compilation with probably be slow. But you can highly customize it for RISC-V I think.
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absolutely, and for other distros (ubuntu etc), maintainers are finally getting platforms to easily test packages built with their build systems, which means binaries for everyone!
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I looked up the stats and yeah it's more like A55 vs A72 (pi 4b) but to reiterate my point of compatibility and potential performance over the next few years:
15fps in witcher 3 is wild for an architecture that is running through a compatibility layer and is incredibly immature. I'd also note that I'm not sure how much overhead box64 has, it's not emulation the same way WINE is not an Emulator, which as we know allows it to be as fast as native Windows sometimes.
