StarFive VisionFive RISC-V Single Board Computer with Linux 

Yes, with these improvements based on my experience so far VisionFive performs significantly better in term of temperature. I haven't experienced any overheating issues with it so far.

Yes, the most exciting part is that RISC-V as an open standard has the potential to disturb the market and cut the costs. Unlike ARM, RISC-V is open and does not charge royalties for the use of designs, patents and copyrights.

@Tony Okay, other than x86 and ARM what practical choices are there for production workstations or servers?

I agree with @Esra Erimez. Although MIPS, SPARC and a bunch of other RISC ISA in theory exist for decades, in practice the mass market is dominated by ARM (and of course x86-64 for CISC). RISC-V is not just another RISC ISA - it is an open standard with the potential to become a game changer in the industry.

@Tony My Dad still thinks that the 6809 is the best processor in the world :-)

Glad you enjoyed it! Btw the serial communication through UART on Raspberry Pi is pretty much the same but on Raspberry Pi OS it is not enabled out of the box (so if want to use it then first enable it with raspi-config :) )

Thanks for watching, I am happy to hear you like it :)

Thank you for watching it :)

RISC-V devices worth it. Especially now when they are more affordable. I hope prices will decrease further to be more competitive to ARM devices in the coming years.

@@LeonAnavi Risc-V is moving at super speed now that the NATO cult has forbidden sales of Intel, AMD and ARM cpus. Russia, China, India… are already switching to Risc-V. Of course it will take a couple of years, but there is no returning back. 80% of the planet cannot use these old CPU anymore or they won’t be independant.

Well, this is interesting but the price tag of $1000 puts it in a completely different market segment. For this range of money you may buy (if you find it stock) NVIDIA Jetson Tegra development boards with ARM SoC and CUDA.

As explained in the video this development board is called VisionFive and it is with StarFive's JH7100 SoC which is a dual-core 64-bit RISC-V part built atop SiFive's U74 cores running at 1GHz.

Good point. Definitely having a distributor in the EU will be helpful for all of us here but it is available at amazon: www.amazon.com/youyeetoo-StarFive-VisionFive-Storage-Support/dp/B09NKVR2QG Btw, speaking about BeagleBoard, recently I bought from Farnell BEAGLEBONE-AI-64. I still haven't done unboxing of it. The plan is to cover it in a video in August so stay tuned :)

Although I haven't tried Tor on VisionFive, it should work because as far as I know Tor is a modified version of Firefox.

Good question but I cannot provide a good answer. Although JTAG is marked on some of the figures in the documentation I couldn't identify it and as of the moment there are no details about it. You better contact StarFive directly on this topic.

The video contains a chapter about the price of VisionFive. As of the moment it is available at Amazon, Aliexpress, Ameridroid (in the US) and Allnet. I am not aware of a EU distributor right now but I hope things will change soon and as you can see in the video it is possible to order it from aliexpress with included VAT. I am not sure about vp9.

@@LeonAnavi yes I saw the entire :) if you find a dealer here please let me know

Yes, huge file + slow GitHub server. My SD card slot on the laptop is fine. I decided to use a card reader for the video as it is visually more catchy. Although I use dd on a daily basis, I recommend using and demonstrating Balena Etcher due to 2 reasons: - it works the same way on Windows and Linux. Some of the viewers are not Linux desktop users. - Ether is user-friendly and easier for less experienced people. Definitely protects the user from wiping out his main drive my mistake :)

@@LeonAnavi well - with 24tb of storage I don't see even 350gb as "huge" file - so a 3.5gb linux image is more or less something like "could you hand my the floppy please?" - but as I have a 30mb/s connection (250mbit/s) and see many mirrors get me files that fast I'm quite disappointed why this image is hosted on a server that not even gets me full 100mbit/s - and terminate after 1gb for no reason - they should share it across a couple of known mirrors or via ed2k/torrent (yes, p2p can be used legit xD) as for the tool: well, given your points - ok, I can agree with that, I guess still don't get why you used an usb dongle if you have built-in card reader - nvm

well, in the region I live in anything less than 1 Gbps is considered poor connection. So I have good internet at home but it also depends on the server which in this case is slow and 3.5GB for an embedded device is definitely large image. Imho it will be better to have several download options out of the box like Raspberry Pi OS where the Lite image is less than 500MB. Anyway, these are just demo images for enthusiasts from professional point of view it is important how good is the StarFive BSP for Yocto/OpenEmbedded and Buildroot.

@@LeonAnavi yea, livin in germany I'm jealous how pretty much all else of europe has way better connection then we have - but that's politics - let's keep that out and of course it always depends on the remote server - if the other side limits it doesn't matter what your own connection is - have I seen it right? it decompress to about 12gb or so? no matter if distributing packed and/or compressed or as an open repo - even if it's still just in a "research" state, it should be redistributed over several mirrors I'm a fan of the way arch does it: provide a rather simple ipxe script and all the other stuff goes over network - pretty easy to mirror on a local network I've seen in the boot log output it uses microBoot - so it should rather simple to build a bios/uefi to support pxe if it doesn't already support it - and the rest goes from there