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       Milk-V Second RISC-V SBC - Physically Compatible with the Raspberry
       Pi 3 Model B
        
       Author : kaycebasques
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-05-31 20:53 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | rektide wrote:
       | An extra USB 3.0 port is a nice start. PCIe and gigabit is also
       | great. Hopefully though we see throughoutputs really scale up
       | somehow on SBC. A couple great USB4 ports in 2026 or whenever
       | would be sweet.
        
       | sylware wrote:
       | oooof... I really need to finally move my self-hosted servers
       | (email/etc) to such risc-v mini-computers namely away from the
       | non-royalty free arm.
       | 
       | I have a too big TODO list.
        
         | blacksmith_tb wrote:
         | The Mars isn't for sale yet, so you probably have a little time
         | to prepare... I will be curious to see if most packages will be
         | available for the architecture, I could imagine having to
         | compile some things (slowly).
        
           | sylware wrote:
           | Well, at first I would have to go thru a compiler, but
           | ultimately, risc-v should be an assembly code sanctuary since
           | it will probably become the worldwide, royalty-free, open and
           | standard ISA.
        
           | RobotToaster wrote:
           | There's always gentoo I suppose?
        
         | tracker1 wrote:
         | If you already have the hardware, I wouldn't switch just
         | because of the license myself. ARM is still ahead in perf/watt
         | and the environmental impact for the existing box is already
         | spent.
         | 
         | I am glad to see the ball moving forward for Risc-V, I do hope
         | they avoid some of the vendor locked extensions that many ARM
         | based SBCs seem to face. Feels like anything other than RPi so
         | far has been an exercise in relative frustration. I have my
         | SiFive 2 that I haven't played with yet... with the work I saw
         | a few weeks ago with Haiku might be fun to play around with.
         | 
         | https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/kallisti5/2021-11-07_booting_o...
        
           | sylware wrote:
           | The license and the "modern" ISA is so much important, I am
           | ready to pay the price there (non performant critical anyway,
           | should be fine and increase risc-v momentum).
        
       | gary_0 wrote:
       | Another StarFive JH7110 board, eh? It's shaping up to be a
       | popular chip. I wonder how hard it would be for a different chip
       | vendor to produce a pin-compatible clone? Please, overwhelm me
       | with cheap interchangeable RISC-V SoC's... my body is ready.
        
         | rektide wrote:
         | Are there any Imagination gpu drivers this time around or is
         | this another unusable Imagination gpu, alike Intel GMA500 /
         | Poulsbo a decade & a half ago?
        
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