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Ubuntu Working To Provide Good Support For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board | Michael Larabel, Phoronix

By June 26, 2022June 30th, 2022No Comments

In recent weeks Ubuntu developers have been working on bringing up and improving support for the Starfive VisionFive, which is one of the most promising “low-cost” RISC-V single board computers to date. Hopefully for Ubuntu 22.10 we’ll be seeing good support for this sub-$180 RISC-V computer.

The Starfive VisionFive is a currently $179 USD RISC-V board that is intended to run full-blown RISC-V Linux distributions. The board comes in two varieties with 4GB or 8GB of system memory, powered by a dual-core SiFive U74 RV64 SoC @ 1.0GHz, NVDLA deep learning accelerator engine, Tensilica-VP6 Vision DSP, and a neural network engine. The board also has WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.2, HDMI output, four USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and powered via USB-C or from the 40-pin GPIO header.

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