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Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10 (9to5linux.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think this can be a good idea in... 5 years maybe? It will only works on qemu, witch board suppose to have this things? I only know one board with all of thins things in ARM, risc-v is too young. I can't imagine a competitive risc-v board at the moment

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Framework were selling a RISC-V mainboard, but they've sold out.

    Pine64 also have the "STAR64" and the "StarPro64", they're not going to win any benchmark competitions, but they do exist.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This boards haven't got the rv23 necessary extensions, and aren't competitive, they are expensive for their performance. There only one attractive is the risc-v cpu for learning, etc

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Those chips not supporting RV23 isn't super surprising, they were released in 2023 while RV23 was only ratified in 2024.

    Ubuntu requiring RV23 however does surprise me (I admit I didn't read the article), that seems premature, but I suppose it's a good baseline going forward. Last time I looked at any of the chips none of them supported the V extension, and those that did were majority only supported the incompatible pre-standard version.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yea this is what I was saying whan I talked about the risc-v ecosistem isn't competitive (at the moment). For me the bests boards at the moment are the based in the spacemmit k1, supports the majority of the rv23 profile extensions (not everything, and for this reason not will be compatible with the new versions for Ubuntu), and full rv22, including rvv 1.0. I have an orange pi rv2 (they use a renamed k1 for some weird reason), and works very well... For 50$, not for more

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