• @merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    121 month ago

    Thanks to box64, a lot of software can actually run on RISCV when using Linux, but the performance is just about pushing Raspberry Pi 4 levels at best.

    But also, if you have source code for some software available in ARM/X64 you can usually just compile it for yourself - A lot of compilers already support RISCV, but obviously distros won’t bother maintaining apps in lesser used architectures

    • @lengau@midwest.social
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      101 month ago

      The native performance of this board is similar to a Raspberry Pi 3. With Box64 it’ll be significantly worse.

      There’s quite a push behind RISC-V now, in part because China seems to like the idea of not being tied to American or British companies for their CPU architecture. We’ll see whether it actually pass out or not.

    • @kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 month ago

      This might be interesting with Gentoo. I know compilation with probably be slow. But you can highly customize it for RISC-V I think.

      • @merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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        11 month ago

        absolutely, and for other distros (ubuntu etc), maintainers are finally getting platforms to easily test packages built with their build systems, which means binaries for everyone!