On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 08:00:14PM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote: > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 03:31:51PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > On Fri, 18 May 2018 02:30:13 -0400 > > Joseph Mayer <joseph.ma...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > > > 4-core (5-core?) 1.5Ghz, 8GB DDR4 ECC RAM, two PCIe slots (one one-lane > > > and one two-lane PCIe 2.0?), SATA, gigabit ethernet, microSD, HDMI, > > > UART. > > > > > > https://www.sifive.com/products/hifive-unleashed/ > > > > > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expansion-board > > > > > > 21 more available in lower link, to the lower right. > > > > > > Great to see it happen finally. > > > > Indeed! RISC-V is making progress. For plain programmers this is probably > > not yet the right set of hardware as (1) system spec of RISC-V is not > > finalized yet (IIRC!) and (2) speed of the board CPU is probably lower than > > speed of Qemu emulation on high-speed xeon CPU. > > > > Also, w.r.t. price, it's a bit prohibitive indeed. IIRC promise was to have > > both boards on one board and for ~$1000 but I may be mistaken on this. > > Anyway, this is just first bird and I hope there will be more comming. > > Especially the promises of Esperanto Technologies look really promising. > > Future is open and interesting! > > Hi!
Hi Peter, > RISCV really interests me! But the porting effort for this is probably > above my head. In the past in risc-v threads I posted a riscv-qemu build > procedure. I revisited this today and followed my own steps. After a bit > of trying I finally got it compiled. I blogged about this experience: > > http://www.centroid.eu/blog/c?article=1526665139 Our emulators/qemu port has already supported RISC-V and it runs quite well. If you have time maybe you can test the riscv-elf port? https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=152775211718628&w=2 Thanks. > Realistically if you want to run BSD on RISCV you can do it through this > way. You don't need to buy the hardware, unless you're seriously good with > porting. My emulation was on FreeBSD, thanks to those folks for makign a > bbl available (so I don't have to install FreeBSD and crosscompile). > > Best Regards, > -peter > > PS: I've been following Talos 2 as well, and really like it but again, that's > the same as with the RISCV issue, I lack the clue to port this. I'm going > to learn about RISCV assembly first and then perhaps learn about POWER > assembly, perhaps I can build a compiler. (I have access to POWER hardware, > but will need to ask permission). Once that is done I'm ready to help > with any porting effort *laugh*. That's if I don't give up along the way.
