Ubuntu Working To Provide Good Support For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Working To Provide Good Support For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board

In recent weeks Ubuntu developers have been working on bringing up and improving support for the Starfive VisionFive, which is one of the most promising "low-cost" RISC-V single board computers to date. Hopefully for Ubuntu 22.10 we'll be seeing good support for this sub-$180 RISC-V computer...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-VisionFive-WIP

[Smurphy]

Yeah. Nice board. Would love to get my hands on one ... in France!
Well - I'll see how it develops in future, and I'll definitely test it.

I'm also eager to see the performance comparisons to regular Raspberry PI's :}

[kiffmet]

When will there be RISC-V boards with IPC and clockspeeds and performance similar to ARM A76 or better?

[Zoll]

When will there be RISC-V boards with IPC and clockspeeds and performance similar to ARM A76 or better?

Exactly, I'm interested to know when would any RISC-V SoC reach parity, if ever, with RPi4

[loganj]

Zoll kiffmet and price too. cause this boards are so freaking expensive

[Quackdoc]

im just waiting for something with decent 3d accel, needs not be the best in the world, but I would like to run some emus

[NateHubbard]

im just waiting for something with decent 3d accel, needs not be the best in the world, but I would like to run some emus

Seems like you could plug a decent video card into the HiFive board. I'm not sure how well it would perform though.

[treba]

In case anyone wants to play with such a board and do something useful while learning about the architecture: adding RISC-V SIMD optimization to https://github.com/ebassi/graphene would help a bunch of Gnome projects, including Gnome-Shell and GTK4

[Quackdoc]

Seems like you could plug a decent video card into the HiFive board. I'm not sure how well it would perform though.

that could be an interesting path to take. not the one I am after, but it could make do if I go this route lol

[PerformanceExpert]

In case anyone wants to play with such a board and do something useful while learning about the architecture: adding RISC-V SIMD optimization to https://github.com/ebassi/graphene would help a bunch of Gnome projects, including Gnome-Shell and GTK4

And how would you test and run the code? Remember this board has a CPU that was announced back in 2018. The vector extension has only recently been finalized, so it'll be several years before you could get a board that supports it.