[Arm-netbook] sifive makes gnulinux running riscv cpu

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 04:25:36AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 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.


If they have ethernet you could connect from another computer that 
does have graphics using X.  This doesn't make it *totally* useless.  
It could be used in a headless server, for example -- a place where 
you might need to avoid built-in spyware.

-- hendrik