>a shift away from Arm could be on the cards
>“We’re excited to have joined the RISC-V Foundation as a silver member,”
>[We’re] hoping to contribute to maturing the Linux kernel and Debian port for the world’s leading free and open instruction set architecture.”
Besides openness, is there really a big benefit for them to adopt? ARM chips are already 2 cents.
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Just openness. No benefit right now actually a lot of work needs to be done. But it will be majorly beneficial in the future, for everything
Yeah, it's the openness. The Broadcom SoC they currently use may be 2 cents, but there's still binary blobs and other locked down crap that prevents some stuff from working.
probably Pi5 in 2020/2021
I own one of the first raspberry pis. I'd it worth lots of money now?
not having to worry about licensing is actually a pretty big deal, and since pi is a high volume affair they are saving a substantial amount of money as well
It was ridiculous. It was supposed to get kidzzzzzz programing but it could barely open a web browser without hanging for five minutes. They've got like iphones, it just seemed so ridiculous.
That's socialism for you.
No good unless they make the rest of the board free
Yest Broadcom is not a member. Strange.
just hope that this doesn't devolve into 100 companies creating 100 exclusive instructions each making software incompatible if you have the wrong cpu.
Unless you use a shitty abstraction layer which slows everything down by a factor of 10x.
Broadcom is a supporter of this project so it is hard to see them switching architecture for RPi 4 which is expected this spring.
Could be, yes.
Just don't browser ad infested backdoor uploading pr0n sites. The RPi is handy for running Pihole, saving a LOT of bandwidth and CPU load.
Unrealistic. A lot of networking chips are locked down.
Unlikely, the cost would be far too great.
You might want to try a new one.
That's why you give your kids a tty only distro and let them play with it.
ill pay you 5 bucks
its fucking nothing
What do I get to build me a ultimate retro console? Raspberry 3 B+ ?
I want to play everything from NES to PS1
There is a Pi arcade project that will emulate all sorts of old and not so old computer. You can play Donkey Kong on 5 different emulated architectures.
fuck Pi
tell me about the rock64
That's socialism for you.
>Unlikely, the cost would be far too great.
It would be cheaper than ARM which they pretty much do the same shit with already on top of licensing the architecture.
risc is good
My b+ is good for exactly that. N64 games are finicky tho, most of them don't work well.
When can I make a Risc-V router already?
still underpower for PS1 n64 though
just get an FPGA with ethernet ports
>but muh clock rate
okay then parallelize it (many-core) and add custom instructions to help with routing, that's the whole point of RISC-V
LEs count???
I have a risc-v core that's pretty light-weight (R32i, + some custom dsp instructions). I don't have the LE count on-hand at the moment but I did a calculation awhile back and concluded that I could get away with about 16-18 cores including I$ and D$ for each on one of these:
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Not that expensive imo. Of course for your case you'd want a board that can support more ethernet ports.
You mean yet another non-compliant board for which there is never any support after you have bought it?
RPi is not the fastest board on the block but it has two crucial things that are more important: long term support and an active community.
Not now. Try keeping it for another century or so.
unlike the pi the rock is free