Lately I’ve been really liking the idea of having something hosted on a RISC-V
machine. RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is a competitor to
ARM. The idea of having a something running on an open source operating system,
running on an open standard CPU, served from my house, gives me a warm fuzzy
feeling. I was under the impression that most Linux distributions were unstable
on RISC-V. Turns out, I’m wrong about that. From a quick search, the following
have official Debian images: * Beagleboard Beagle-V Ahead
[https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beaglev-ahead] * Starfive Visionfive 2
[https://ameridroid.com/products/visionfive-2] * Milk-V Mars
[https://milkv.io/mars] and the Pine64 Star64
[https://pine64.com/product-category/star64/] has a community-maintained Armbian
image. Does anyone here have a RISC-V single-board computer doing anything
practical for you?
RISC-V is a non-proprietary instruction set that is an alternative to ARM. I had thought that we were still waiting for a stable Linux distribution on RISC-V devices, but it turns out many RISC-V machines can run Debian already.
Does anyone have a RISC-V device that they use regularly? How has it been working?
Yes, I have a VisionFive 2 and I use it to host some websites. I have am Arch Linux image compiled by a user in a forum, but the userspace packages are from a RISC-V repository from a other people working in Arch in general.
I could run my websites but it wasn’t easy at first, because, yes I have Docker but there are almost no images for riscv64, so I had to do some compiling and build images in a local registry. Bu now it works pretty well.
It sounds like the answer to “can I run this application on RISC-V” is very dependent on what the backend for that application is. What’s the backend stack for your websites? Are they static HTML sites, or do they have other components? Someone else mentioned that they built postgres and mariadb Docker images for RISC-V, but I don’t even know which programming languages can be compiled for RISC-V right now.
Yes, I have a VisionFive 2 and I use it to host some websites. I have am Arch Linux image compiled by a user in a forum, but the userspace packages are from a RISC-V repository from a other people working in Arch in general.
I could run my websites but it wasn’t easy at first, because, yes I have Docker but there are almost no images for riscv64, so I had to do some compiling and build images in a local registry. Bu now it works pretty well.
It sounds like the answer to “can I run this application on RISC-V” is very dependent on what the backend for that application is. What’s the backend stack for your websites? Are they static HTML sites, or do they have other components? Someone else mentioned that they built postgres and mariadb Docker images for RISC-V, but I don’t even know which programming languages can be compiled for RISC-V right now.