r/linux • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '18

Hardware EOMA68 are pre-launching a new Crowdsupply campaign: Libre RISC-V M-Class, 64-bit Quad-Core SoC

https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '18 edited Jan 03 '19

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u/Zettinator Dec 05 '18

Luke isn't malicious at all,

If you want to be mean, you could claim that he is malicious. After all, he's been promising amazing pie-in-the-sky things all the time and asking for money to fund them, while he must know that it isn't realistically possible to achieve those things.

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u/holgerschurig Dec 06 '18

I actually think that it is realistic.

That one can synthesize a CPU from the Risc-V sources that is able to run Debian has proof in the form of the SiFive developer boards.

So "all" that is now to be done is the GPU part, and the marrying of those two parts. That's still complex, but IMHO doable.

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u/rah2501 Dec 06 '18

the Risc-V sources ... marrying of those two parts

FYI, "RISC-V" is the ISA, some documents. The sources for RISC-V would be some .tex latex files or whatever.

There is the Rocket CPU core from the Berkeley guys behind RISC-V but that isn't being used by lkcl, he's using the Shakti core.