Developer Jesse Taube has become the first to successfully boot a minimal Linux distribution on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2’s RP2350 microcontroller — taking advantage of the chip’s new open source Hazard3 RISC-V cores to run software more commonly associated with application-class processors than microcontrollers.
“Someone is already running RISC-V NOMMU Linux on [the] RP2350,” writes Raspberry Pi principal hardware engineer Luke Wren, who brought the project to our attention and the designer of the Hazard3 cores in the company’s new RP2350 microcontroller, on Twitter. “[I] knew I was going to get sniped on that one.”
SparkFun’s Pro Micro RP2350 is now Linux-capable, after a fashion, thanks to the chip’s Hazard3 RISC-V cores. (📷: SparkFun)