Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019
by asveikau on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:20AM
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Whoa, I had considered the unleashed board to play around with and bookmarked it, but they are not very overt with the price. I didn't realize it was $1000 USD. You have to click through twice to discover it.
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You might consider the HiFive board. It's around 50 dollar, a more appropriate price for something to play around with.
The chips used in the hifive board are not available for sale anywhere. They're apparently a one-off run for the hifive board specifically.
Therefore, they're not a good choice to base a project on.
I do look forward at low power microcontrollers based on risc-v with some actual commitment to continued availability.
Re:Debian Riscv64 port in mid 2019
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:47AM
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The hifive is marketed as an arduino-like, but at 320mHz it seems like it should be able to run a stripped-down Linux distro. Not fast, but if Linux can run on puny MIPS boards...
It doesn't appear to have any DRAM, so you'd have to find a linux capable of running in 16 (sixteen) kilobytes of onchip SRAM. Without an MMU.
You can run Linux on at Atmega664. Not well, but you can.
https://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%2...