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Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership:
[The Raspberry Pi] Foundation has announced that it is joining the RISC-V Foundation, suggesting that a shift away from Arm could be on the cards. "We're excited to have joined the RISC-V Foundation as a silver member," the Raspberry Pi Foundation posted to its Twitter account. "[We're] hoping to contribute to maturing the Linux kernel and Debian port for the world's leading free and open instruction set architecture."
A shift from the proprietary Arm architecture to RISC-V would fit in nicely with the Foundation's goal of low-cost, highly-accessible computing for education and industry – but would put paid to its tradition of keeping backwards compatibility where possible, something it has already suggested might be the case when it moves away from the Broadcom BCM283x platform for the Raspberry Pi 4. Foundation co-founder Eben Upton, though, is clear: the Foundation is currently focusing on supporting the ISA in software, and not with a development board launch.
I'm curious how many Soylentils have a Raspberry Pi (or more than one) and which model(s). How has your experience been? What are the positives and shortcomings you've encountered? Do you think it would be a good move for them to move to RISC-V?
More background on RISC-V is available at Wikipedia.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Farkus888 on Saturday January 12 2019, @08:41PM (2 children)
I have one 3 b+ running Lakka, an all in one emulator that is pretty slick. I have never tried higher than snes but they work flawlessly at that level.
I have 3 more of the same model as nodes in a small lab I built. 3 routers, 4 switches and 3 pcs (the pis). They are great for this application. I have a case that stacks them up, combined with a multi port USB charger it gives good node count in a small space. I plugged one of them into my home network directly and paired it with 4 USB console cables, it worked great as a console server on the cheap.
In the future I think mine will serve as a cheap, both up front and power consumption, way to build a lab to work on kubernetes.
For someone who wants do self education lab work in IT they are hard to beat unless you need windows. Network nodes, traffic generators, kali linux and a victim, a test environment for devs or an ssh server so you can access your lab from anywhere. That is just what I've already thought of and tried.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday January 12 2019, @09:05PM
http://www.lakka.tv/ [lakka.tv]
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @09:17PM
I have a B+ running samba paired with a 2TB hard drive that serves up music and movies on my home network. I have another B+ that runs PiHole and keeps my LAN clear of ads and malware. I have a Zero W that is a surveillance camera. I have an original 2 that is also a surveillance camera. I have another zero W that is slated for a project for my garage. I have another 2 that is going into a home weather station project when I get some free time to assemble the parts together. I have a 3B+ that is currently my toying around box. My kid has a 2 that he set up with Kodi and hooked it up to his TV. One of these days, I'm going to set up an Onion Pi Tor Hotspot with one of my spare Pi's but when I tried it a couple of years ago, the networking wasn't reliable across boots and I wanted a set-it and forget-it box.
I deployed a 3 at work with Samba and forced it to be the browse master because Windows 7 and Windows 10 combined environments SUCK unless you are on AD. Now all the network shares are browsable all the time. I have deployed two more 3's at work for various remote projects including one that talks to a cellular data hotspot and spits out field data at prescribed intervals. It monitors the whole setup and resets anything that fails. A watchdog board monitors the Pi.
I have a half dozen or more various Pis laying around as spares and uncommitted projects.
Raspberry Pi's are reliable and cheap for all kinds of projects. They are a lot of fun for us hardware nerds. People who bitch that they won't replace their i7 just don't see their great potential.