BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run Linux

Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by zozbot234 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:18AM (#25764048)

> The high-level design is proprietary too.

They have source code files for their 'Freedom' core designs up on GitHub under an Apache 2.x license. These can be directly used to evaluate their designs as FPGA soft-cores.

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Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by my123 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:11PM (#25764957)

The SoC, with the Rocket core used. This is very different from SiFive's own U series cores, which are proprietary.

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Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by zozbot234 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:16PM (#25765044)

SiFive has E-series (aka "Freedom Everywhere") and U-series (aka "Freedom Unleashed") cores, both of which seem to be based on Rocket. And they do provide high-level designs for both on their GitHub, under a free license.

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Re:BeagleV – An affordable RISC-V computer designed to run L... by my123 on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @12:26PM (#25765188)

High-level designs of the SoC, not of those cores themselves is public for some platforms.

Based on whatever for the core doesn't matter, as the cores themselves in any case diverge quite a lot from Rocket.

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