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Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces RISC-V Foundation Membership

posted by takyon on Saturday January 12 2019, @05:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the chip-off-the-old...chip? dept.

martyb writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by SemperOSS on Sunday January 13 2019, @12:22AM

    by SemperOSS (5072) on Sunday January 13 2019, @12:22AM (#785718)

    I use a number of RPis as headless servers:

    1. My web and NextCloud server (at a friend's house overseas as he has a fixed IP address)
    2. My mail server (at same friend's house for same reason)
    3. His web and NextCloud server (I gave him to have mine there)
    4. His mail server (I also gave him)
    5. Backup mail server + backup server (at my brother's house abroad)
    6. Home server (local backup and sync to backup server)
    7. Home security and environment server with PIR sensor, ToF distance sensor used as virtual "tripwire", microwave proximity sensor, light sensor, environment sensor (temperature, humidity and organic gasses), CO2 + CO)

    The above servers are all RPi 3 B+ based and I have four backups (old RPi 2 B boards) at my friend's house and another at my brother's house. The backups are the original RPis used for 1 to 5 above.

    The firewall at my friend's house used to be a Raspberry Pi too but died at an inopportune moment and was replaced with his son's discarded laptop, which provided sufficient oomph to actually not become a bottleneck in the firewall functionality (running IPtables and nginx).

    I had thought about using an RPi as a media server but I realised it was easier to play music from my laptop via Bluetooth on my sound bar and that my Blu-Ray player supports Netflix and Prime Video, my primary entertainment choices for movies and TV shows the few times I watch that.

      

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