Anssi Saari wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Maybe I missed something. Why RISC V? > > Just having an alternative is attractive to some. Having an open > alternative even more so. > > I'd happily run ARM or RISC-V, if those were an alternative for a decent > desktop or laptop computer. Raspberry Pi is scratching and clawing its > way there little by little. As the Pi 4 has exposed a PCIe connection, > it has a viable storage now for a small system. But still slow and weird > form factor. Maybe in Pi 6 or maybe 10? Who knows.
Maybe. But Linux support for the Apple M1 CPU (an ARM variant) is coming along nicely, and it could be a first-class architecture in a year or two. Performance is not lacking, though price is not wonderful. -dsr-
