DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux - Liliputing
DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux - Liliputing
DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux
I love the idea of risc-v. Good luck to these people.
I don't think Steam and Wine works on RISC-V? Especially if Wine uses native x86 instructions.
But maybe in the future games will be recompiled for RISC-V, wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a checkbox on Godot.
Steam for Linux only has x86 builds right now and wine only translates system calls, so by default they won't work.
There are ways to get them to work though, but they mostly involve emulating x86. Given the performance of the current state of the art in RISC-V, that won't exactly go well right now.
That said, that's not what this machine is for at all. As a software developer working on developer tools for Linux, this is particularly interesting to me as a way to improve the Linux RISC-V ecosystem while dogfooding my own stuff.
WINE Is Not an Emulator and there is no Windows on RISC-V.
wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being a checkbox on Godot.
one of the reasons I love Godot :D
In terms of specifications all I can find is that this has a 2.0GHz 8-core RV64 processor with Vector. That's not a lot of info.
Does anybody know anything more about it? Performance level, battery life, etc. I expect this is really a phone or SBC level processor, so it should sip power, right?
Do not expect this thing to be a daily driver. It's aimed at developers who need a Risc-V testing platform. Very few Software will run on it unless you can spend hours making it compile for Risk-V and lets not talk about drivers. Also it will likely cost over $1000.
I am exited for the future of Risc-V in the consumer space, but we aren't there yet.
Ok that makes more sense... The price point didn't match the specs for a consumer product
VisionFive2 is one of the better riscv boards at the moment. It's not super fast, but it can boot from sd card at least from 6.8. No PCI-E so most the USB is absent, as is NVME, etc. There are patches to get all that going that apply neatly to 6.9 and If I'm not wrong they've been accepted for 6.11, so it's on the way. u-boot is all set. and grub 2.12 works fine. you can u-boot -> grub 2.12 efi -> linux just fine. It won't break any speed records, but it is a nice stable riscv device with upstream support landing.
let's* not talk about
Performance level
Not good. That bench is from a BananaPi with the same SoC, via reddit (sorry).
Maybe about an A55. If you want a performant RISC-V you've gotta wait until stuff leaks out of the European Supercomputer stuff onto the market though that one probably won't have good IPC either unless it's vector, or maybe one of the big chip design companies will grace us with a chip with a RISC-V insn decoder.
If they do something like a NUC form factor, I might buy it. I think it would make a decent NAS, but not a great laptop/desktop due to missing software. If it has solid USB-C, I can get a HDD enclosure and be good to go with RISC-V.
Laptop form factor is very ambitious! Huge respect. I would love to give one a spin