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lew247 Guru  Joined: 23/12/2015 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1702 |
Risc-V powered open source computer Advertised as  Add a usb wifi dongle and that's one powerful computer, if MM could be used on it directly |
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| mkopack73 Senior Member  Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
It has Wifi on it already. |
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| William Leue Guru Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 405 |
Risc-V is touted as being the next big thing. However, each manufacturer is going to customize the core instruction set with their own notions. I am not sure this is going to really promote unification and universal usability. The industry is just too darned competitive. It is, however, helping to drive in another nail into Intel's coffin. -Bill |
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| lew247 Guru Joined: 23/12/2015 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1702 |
The reason I suggested this board is even though it's been designed to run Linux everything on the board is open source, software and hardware - based on Risc-V Open Architecture which means open as well so it should be easy for someone who knows what they are doing or a few people to develop a build of MM that could maybe run on the board direct with no other operating system needed |
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hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 734 |
Nothing to it ! .... : ) my site |
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| mkopack73 Senior Member Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
It's not that they'll change the base instruction set - they'll be adding in secondary stuff - just like the various ARM partners do. ARM provides the base processing core, and then the licensees add in other things like their own graphics cores, machine learning/AI processing circuitry, etc. RISC-V will be handled largely the same way. Nobody is going to go off the deep end on their own and risk their implementation being unable to run code written for all the other variants. It'll just be the add-on logic that will differentiate the implementations. Edited 2021-01-16 13:16 by mkopack73 |
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| JohnS Guru Joined: 18/11/2011 Location: United KingdomPosts: 4147 |
As I put in the other thread... Did you find its price? I gave up looking! If it's as new as it seems, I'd go for established hardware with known behaviour (and price). Though writing the low-level device code is terribly time-consuming as matherp has said. John |
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| hitsware2 Guru Joined: 03/08/2019 Location: United StatesPosts: 734 |
" Seeed Studio pegs the cost of the board at $149 for the 8 GB RAM version " my site |
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| lew247 Guru Joined: 23/12/2015 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1702 |
Try reading some of the info about it here  here  here  here   Price Starting from $119 for the 4GB model, or $149 for the 8GB, Beagle V is slightly more expensive than a Raspberry Pi 4 but for RISC-V and AI enthusiasts this is a small price to pay for a RISC-V machine of such power |
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| mkopack73 Senior Member Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 261 |
Don't really understand why you directed that at me. I know quite a lot about it actually. I've been watching RISC-V for years now, and everything I said about how it will work with the instruction set is 100% correct... |
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