I’m in a similar boat with the Pi 5 being the first I haven’t bought. I do have one of the VisionFive 2 boards, but I’m more interested in the Milk-V Oasis board that’s supposedly coming near the end of the year.
Software support for RISC-V isn’t as good yet either. I don’t know of any hardware that supports the hypervisor extension, there is no IOMMU spec today, many distributions don’t give it the same support as ARM64, etc. It is definitely improving rapidly, but I don’t think there have been any really compelling RISC-V SoCs just yet.
> I do have one of the VisionFive 2 boards, but I’m more interested in the Milk-V Oasis board that’s supposedly coming near the end of the year.
The Milk-V Oasis is out, but are you saying there's going to be another revision of that board?
I'm torn between the Lichee (7-node, 28 cores), the Milk (1 node, 64 cores), or the VisionFive 2.
If I was going to build out a lab for shared use across a number of engineers building packages and ci/cd for Linux, what would be the best option now, while we all wait for the hardware to improve in H2/2024?
Their Oasis [1] board is going to use SiFive's IP, the main cluster is 12 P P670 cores, and 4 E cores. There are also 8 X280 cores as an "NPU", also RISC-V but with a slightly different ISA.
I think this is a good question. I don't think you're going to find a RISC-V board with comparable performance to an rPI 4 or 5 in that price range currently.
Interesting. Using the RPi 5 as a benchmark, what if I was willing to spend $200? I guess what I'm wondering is how much you have to spend to get to that point.
