schizoidmanDC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux - Liliputing
In terms of specifications all I can find is that this has a 2.0GHz 8-core RV64 processor with Vector. That’s not a lot of info.
Does anybody know anything more about it? Performance level, battery life, etc. I expect this is really a phone or SBC level processor, so it should sip power, right?
SynapseDo not expect this thing to be a daily driver. It’s aimed at developers who need a Risc-V testing platform. Very few Software will run on it unless you can spend hours making it compile for Risk-V and lets not talk about drivers. Also it will likely cost over $1000.
I am exited for the future of Risc-V in the consumer space, but we aren’t there yet.
Ok that makes more sense… The price point didn’t match the specs for a consumer product
VisionFive2 is one of the better riscv boards at the moment. It’s not super fast, but it can boot from sd card at least from 6.8. No PCI-E so most the USB is absent, as is NVME, etc. There are patches to get all that going that apply neatly to 6.9 and If I’m not wrong they’ve been accepted for 6.11, so it’s on the way. u-boot is all set. and grub 2.12 works fine. you can u-boot -> grub 2.12 efi -> linux just fine. It won’t break any speed records, but it is a nice stable riscv device with upstream support landing.
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