Hey everyone,
I’ve noticed this community is a bit barren. I’d like to add some posts myself but from a more ignorant POV.
It has come to my attention that there is not nearly enough software torture in my life. Hearing how companies are starting to add barriers to so-called “Translation layers” and other software pieces that give functionality to the underlying hardware…
What types of projects does the open source community need to pursue with respect to RISC-V drivers, firmware, or other necessary pieces to somewhat guarantee that the processor is compatible with GPUs, RAM, I/O, and other low level functions that hardware components perform?
Where should I start in my RISC-V journey? Is there a beginner computer or developer kit that I can purchase that won’t incinerate my wallet? I don’t expect to game or train LLMs off of a RISC-V-based computer, but am curious as to what a fully free hardware setup would consist of.
Love the idea of RISC-V!
Pine64 has some risc-v stuff. They’re usually pretty fairly priced from my experience
The Pinetab-V and Star64 look interesting for a tablet and SBC on the RISC-V architecture… What Linux distribution would one have for options on that processor architecture? Debian sounds appealing there…
I know there’s an Armbian image (probably Debian based) and a few others for the star64, while iirc the default os for the PineTab v is a yocto build. I’m sure it would be possible to make a Debian img for either.