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

Microchip releases Linux-ready consumer RISC-V board with FPGA(crowdsupply.com)

12 points by guiand 6 years ago | 4 comments

rwmj 6 years ago |

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 6 years ago |

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

rwmj 6 years ago | |

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

rowanG077 6 years ago | | |

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.