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Maybe in ten years when support has matured some. RISC-V is something I dream about and want, but a RockChip ARM would be a better platform atm.
I’d really love to see a RISC-V phone running BSD, but same issue. 😥
Been dreaming since hackers
I mean, they weren’t wrong. ARM is a RISC chip, so RISC did change the world.
I’ve been seriously considering getting M$’s arm dev box to use as a desktop. ARM on desktop is kinda kicking ass.
Arm desktop? What?
Yep, it's a thing. Qualcomm recently put one out afaik.
And you can technically make the Ampere CPU - not the NVIDIA thing - run as a overkill desktop chip.
Threadripper, but actually ripping your power bill into shreds. xD
Yep. Windows, Linux, and BSD all run on it with varying levels of success, with Windows lagging primarily because none of the other OEMs want to write drivers yet.
If I could afford the Ampere, I would jump on it. Watching Jeff Geerling with his gives me serious FOMO.
Man I’m really out of the loop lol
You might not be dreaming *that* long, actually. o.o
The Star-Tech peeps that make the VisionFive2 have pushed a crapton of patches upstream - just ~4 of them are outstanding at this point, the rest is entirely accepted. Meaning, RISC-V ought to become even more of a "native target" for the kernel.
Plus, Google's side-eye towards RISC-V might cause a ripple in the long-term.
For now, I will just be posting about my experiences with the VisionFive2, its ups and downs and all the stupid stuff I do with it. xD
As for the phone? Oh dude I hear you. Defo would buy, if it had a proper screen magnifier, instantly.
I’ll be interested, but the entire stack of software will have to be properly optimized to compete in today’s world. Everything from the kernel, V8, things like ffmpeg… I think it’ll be functional pretty soon if a company is working on it. I’ll check out VisionFive. Considered getting the PineBook RISC at one point.
I feel like BSD is a sleeping giant. It’s going to be my next exploration. Fans as crazy as Arch bros, but quite a bit nicer 🤣. Arch was pretty dang nice, so I kinda want to see why they’re so passionate about BSD.
I forgot Pine64 made that... Must have overseen that, when I bought the NASCase and RockPro64. To be fair, I bought that one off e-bay; was cheaper to get it from a local chap here in germany ^^;
As for the software?
https://void.cat/d/AdB8gaYCfjZAQiUwrYLx9u.webp
And: https://github.com/starfive-tech/Debian
There are other repos, too, for uboot, opensbi, and even an Android repo (aosp-hardware methinks)
So, work is definitively happening! ^^
My only BSD experience is, unironically, Mac OS... Yes, Darwin/XNU etc etc; but it's the closest I got. xD But I too think that there is something in BSD that has yet to be really "discovered". Might build a VM of that eventually; I can abuse Windows' screen magnifier to work around the lack of accessibility stuff in a VM quite well, lol.