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Microchip releases Linux-ready consumer RISC-V board with FPGA

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12 points by guiand · 4 comments

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rwmj

At least in theory it should be possible to run Fedora/RISC-V on this (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V) although at only 2GB the memory size is underwhelming. I have backed it.

Can anyone speculate if it would be possible to add NVME using something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-M-2-Adapter-Profile-Ex...

rowanG077

Why this half backed open SoC? The CPU has an open source instruction set while the FPGA is complete proprietary garbage.

  • rwmj

    All FPGAs are "proprietary garbage". Some have been reverse-engineered (like the Lattice) with great effort, but that's the only difference.

    • rowanG077

      Well by that strict definition all of them are indeed proprietary. But in effect some Lattice and Xilinx FPGAs are usable as if they were not proprietary.

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