• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    Has anybody been running a RISC-V based Linux system? I wonder how painful it is. Given that you can run most Linux programs on anything from a small ARM-based Raspberry Pi to the latest Intel x86 monstrosity, I’m guessing that many things should just work. But, I know it’s never really that simple.

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      Things will work for the most part, but be slow and have many pain points for a little while. ARM support isnt 100% across the board yet, and development in this direction is going to take a while given ARM conversion took a few years with major vendors switching over. RiscV will prob take a bit longer. Jeff Geerling has a video on a riscv itx motherboard from Milk-V