Do you run anything on a RISC-V processor? - Lemmy
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Lately I’ve been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system, running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. I was under the impression that most Linux distributions were unstable on RISC-V. Turns out, I’m wrong about that. From a quick search, the following have official Debian images: * Beagleboard Beagle-V Ahead [https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beaglev-ahead] * Starfive Visionfive 2 [https://ameridroid.com/products/visionfive-2] * Milk-V Mars [https://milkv.io/mars] and the Pine64 Star64 [https://pine64.com/product-category/star64/] has a community-maintained Armbian image. Does anyone here have a RISC-V single-board computer doing anything practical for you?

(also posted on @selfhost)

RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.

Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?

  • aarroyoc@lemuria.es
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    7 months ago

    Yes, I have a VisionFive 2 and I use it to host some websites. I have am Arch Linux image compiled by a user in a forum, but the userspace packages are from a RISC-V repository from a other people working in Arch in general.

    I could run my websites but it wasn’t easy at first, because, yes I have Docker but there are almost no images for riscv64, so I had to do some compiling and build images in a local registry. Bu now it works pretty well.

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Definitely interested - is the mainline situation any better than with ARM?

    I’ve been bitten before with a device that “supports” a major distribution, but only if you install our custom pre-built image (good luck auditing what we’ve tweaked) and only with our special pre-built kernel that isn’t even an LTS version, and has a bunch of patches applied to support whatever weird peripherals we decided to throw on the board, and will get exactly 0 updates after the initial release.

    Raspberry Pi gets around this by being big enough to get buy in from vendors (Ubuntu distributes a special kernel + firmware bundle), but support for all the other smaller knock offs seem shaky at best