I'm trying to learn computer architecture and want a 64bit #riscv64 development board. Ideally I'd get something under $100, but have a flexible budget, and won't think twice up to $200.
No real plans, other than hobby and playing around with it. I want a 2000s era "full desktop" type performance, with some sort of GPU module.
Afaik #RISCV64 is Tier2 in #FreeBSD and should therefore provide at least the basic port and pkg support? „This includes support for basic packages such as ports-mgmt/pkg“
@zirias yeah probably, maybe time to update the doc to make it more clear. Just encountered it when needing OpenSSL and curl libs for building #snac for #FreeBSD on #riscv64. It’s a first struggle w/o ports, git etc but now I’m finally building everything
I'm looking for a small RISC-V hardware (something like a #Raspberry / #RaspberryPI) that supports #FreeBSD. What can you recommend for playing around natively on #riscv64?
Two gouache paintings I made for an online challenge sometime back.
Continuing my tech-related post from yesterday, I'd say that my dream computer these days is a capable Risc-V-based mini computer running Debian. The Risc-V is the only open source ISA architecture today, but it is not 100% there yet in terms of speed: it gets about 500 points in the CPU score, while an M1 Macbook Air gets about 14,000 points, and Ubuntu with Gnome to run well-enough it needs about 3500 points. Video codecs are an issue too. It still runs well-enough Debian with XFce though. So we aren't there yet, but its time will come.