I’ve been thinking about acquiring one of these for a while, because RISC-V sounds quite interesting, but I think I should ask about it here before I spend money on this stuff and the shipping…
First of all, how well does it run Linux? It appears that MangoPi uses their own distro, so I could imagine that a standard one wouldn’t run… I don’t know about the Sipeed chips. Did anyone here try?
Secondly, which specific model do you have? It’s a little hard to get an overview of what’s currently available (MangoPi and Sipeed are the only two that I know), I would appreciate a list or just the name of the one you have.
And, in general, what’s it like? Does the shipping take long? What are you using it for?
It’s not out yet, but Pine64 is making the Star64 with a RISC-V CPU from SiFive. You can find it in this blog post: https://www.pine64.org/2022/08/28/august-update-risc-and-reward/#1375b31
SiFive is a Californian company, but thanks for the link anyway, it looks promising.
Yeah, but Pine64 who is making the SBC is a Chinese company. I don’t know of any current projects using Chinese RISC-V chips. Hopefully that changes soon.
I hope Orange Pi jumps in the game because I enjoy buying their products.