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Re: Anyone out there playing with RISC-V dev kits?

I have an Orange Pi RV2 [1].  Lots of connectivity, and pretty inexpensive
[2].
When it arrived, people were saying that finally there was a good RiscV
offering.
Unfortunately, it's about 1/2 the power of an equivalent spec Aarch64 based
board.
Great value for the price though.

[1]
http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-RV2.html
[2] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008778019063.html

It should be noted that while Ubuntu and OpenWRT are available for the X1
CPU,
the binaries come from Huawei servers.  Last I checked the kernel patches
were
not upstreamed yet.

$ head -n1 /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://repo.huaweicloud.com/ubuntu-ports/ noble main restricted
universe multiverse

Nice board -- everything works.  Mediocre performance.  Not well integrated
into the OSS ecosystem.

-Bart


On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM Robert P. J. Day via linux <
linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote:

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>   I have an aging StarFive VisionFive and want to get something
> up-to-date; one option appears to be the Banana PI F3, but I am open
> to recommendations for other boards that are not horrifically
> difficult to order and have shipped to Canada.
>
> rday
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