RISC-V is succeeding

Re:RISC-V is succeeding by rjsw on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:17PM (#30516868)

Making a RPi equivalent would require a GPU with Linux support, I don't see any sign that RISC-V chip vendors are able to do this.

Building a desktop system with a PCIe graphics card would be easier.

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by ColonelPhantom on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @09:00PM (#30522747)

There actually exists at least one GPL-licensed GPU core (GPLGPU), but it's based on a 90s PC 3D accelerator that's really just not that good.

I believe the team behind LibreSOC is also working on a 3D processor, but I don't know how far along they are.

However, if a vendor instead ships a decent framebuffer and high-performance vector unit, I think LLVMpipe would not be a problem for most RPi-equivalent use cases, either light desktop use or server use (especially the latter!)

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by Narishma on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:26PM (#30516993)

Isn't Imgtec doing that?

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by rjsw on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @12:32PM (#30517093)

Where can I get the source code for PowerVR kernel drm code from?

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by snvzz on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:47PM (#30605615)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Open-Sou...

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by Narishma on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:58PM (#30518408)

Nowhere because it's not available yet. They only made a few announcements.

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Re:RISC-V is succeeding by snvzz on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @02:47PM (#30605621)

This has since changed. They've released a DRM/DRI driver.

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