Official Ubuntu RISC-V Images Released For StarFive's VisionFive Board
Canonical engineers spent the past few months back-porting various patches and ensuring that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS could run well on this RISC-V board. The StarFive VisionFive is a currently $179 USD RISC-V board that is intended to run full-blown RISC-V Linux distributions. The board is powered by a dual-core SiFive U74 RV64 SoC @ 1.0GHz, there is 8GB of system memory, a NVDLA deep learning accelerator engine, Tensilica-VP6 Vision DSP, and a neural network engine. The board also has WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.2, HDMI output, four USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and powered via USB-C or from the 40-pin GPIO header.
[...] Meanwhile StarFive is already teasing that the VisionFive V2 RISC-V SBC will be coming out soon as its successor.
Now you can run Ubuntu on a VisionFive single-board PC with a RISC-V processor
Aimed at developers, the first model launched last year with a dual-core processor, while a second-gen version with a quad-core chip and other upgrades is expected to be announced August 23, 2022.
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StarFive VisionFive 2 quad-core RISC-V SBC launched for $46 and up
As expected, StarFive has officially unveiled the JH7110 quad-core RISC-V processor with 3D GPU and the VisionFive 2 SBC. I just did not expect the company to also launch a Kickstarter campaign for the board, and the version with 2GB RAM can be had for just about $46 for "early birds".
The VisionFive 2 ships with up to 8GB RAM, HDMI 2.0 and MIPI DSI display interfaces, dual Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, a QSPI flash for the bootloader, as well as support for eMMC flash module, M.2 NVMe SSD, and microSD card storage.
Compared to the Raspberry Pi 4, it has better I/O, worse CPU performance, and potentially better GPU performance (it's an Imagination BXE-4-32), with similar price points for RAM amounts. It uses the the 100 × 72 mm "Pico-ITX" form factor like some recent RK3588 boards (RPi 4 is 85.6 mm × 56.5 mm).
Previously: Imagination Announces B-Series GPU IP: Scaling up with Multi-GPU
VisionFive V1 RISC-V Linux SBC Resurrects BeagleV Single Board Computer
Official Ubuntu RISC-V Images Released For StarFive's VisionFive Board
(Score: 1) by Rodxit on Friday August 19 2022, @07:44PM (2 children)
I like to buy a RISC-V 64 Bit notebook.
- 12 GB RAM minimum.
- 256 GB SSD storage.
- 4 CPU cores minimum.
- 2 x USB 3.x minimum.
- 1 x USB-C Power-Supply.
- 5 Ghz WiFi / Bluetooth.
- Web-CAM FHD
- 14-17" FHD display
A casing like this: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/ [pine64.org] would be nice.
Who wants my money ?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 19 2022, @07:50PM
There is buzz, we'll see if any materialize:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/06/24/risc-v-laptop-or-mini-pc-with-rockchip-rk3588-class-performance/ [cnx-software.com]
But be careful what you wish for:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/07/02/roma-linux-laptop-to-feature-quad-core-risc-v-soc-support-web3-nft-cryptocurrencies-etc/ [cnx-software.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by Rodxit on Friday August 19 2022, @08:34PM
Look at the spare parts prices.
https://pine64.com/product-category/pinebook-pro-spare-parts/ [pine64.com]
I want the opposite of planned obsolescence.