Arm Holdings to be bought by Nvidia for 40 Billion

There’s one now

https://beaglev.seeed.cc/

The 8GB DDR4 RAM is quite generous given the rest of the specs.

I want to believe in a new cpu revolution but there are still barriers to overcome. (price can be one…)
Bur my main concern is about the GPU :

One obvious item missing from the specifications is a GPU, and I was told while the first batch scheduled in March will be GPU less, but the next batch – slated to be manufactured in September – will come with an Imagination Technologies GPU.

And I’ve seen on news since almost 2 years pages about imagination driver but, I can be wrong, nothing is out for now : SiFive RISC-V SoCs Can Now Be Paired With A GPU... Imagination's PowerVR - Phoronix
and Imagination Working On A New Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Project - Phoronix

I had a dream… :wink:

I too was thinking to buy this SBC and had assumed a GPU was integrated, thank you for pointing this out.

Yeah… I’m very interested, and the dropping price looks promising. Will be very interesting once a quad-core version with a GPU is available for <£100. Surely Arch will start bootstrapping packages for RISCV soon. The only repos I’ve found where this has been mentioned have been abandoned 2–3 years ago.

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Gentoo has started with RISC-V

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Fedora is working on beagleV : https://twitter.com/pdp7/status/1372093426242514946

Fedora is not working on any specific board.
They have always had RISC-V pkgs since long time.

The dev is working on fedora support for beagleV board.

Technically Arch must be working Risc-V too but itb is very very early to expect a working system on Risc-V as it have some issues with Rust compiler.

I have requested for sample board but have not recieved any response.

I have an old Nvidia video card in my desktop and I am pretty upset with them as they completely dropped support for the drivers i use… On the other hand Nvidia opensourced PhysX.
So i have a mixed feeling about this topic… We will see…

News that CAN change things : Intel's tilt to foundry opens a door to upstart RISC-V technology | ZDNet

@spikerguy Now, I think it’s really available Getting Started with BeagleV™ - StarLight - Seeed Wiki

Fedora on risc-v: https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/fedora/Fedora-riscv64-vic7100-dev-raw-image-Rawhide-202104161415.n.0-sda.raw.zst

And alpine and “soon” linuxkit : Adding riscv64 to the list of supported architectures · Issue #3673 · linuxkit/linuxkit · GitHub

Did you get your board ? I still wait to be able to have one.

Deal is off: