[Arm-netbook] sifive makes gnulinux running riscv cpu

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:26 PM,  <ronwirring at safe-mail.net> wrote:
> https://www.sifive.com/products/risc-v-core-ip/u54-mc/
>
> What can we expect from this cpu?
> There is no gpu, you cannot get a board which has a display port?

 yeh bizarre, isn't it?  they basically expect you to use its external
bus to connect a (expensive) FPGA to, do the conversion to
something-or-other, and to connect an HDMI interface or RGB/TTL
interface etc. etc. yourself, implementing the display logic in a
hybrid of software-plus-FPGA.

 or do connect a standard graphics card via PCIe.

 each of which is an awful lot of work / money.

 now, if *they* created a dev-kit which had that already *done*....
then... great!

l.