Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis.

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• Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nice to see! Baby steps and all that. Getting RISC-V to a consumer-level state is still a pretty gargantuan task that has a lot of catch-up to do, but it’s walking along its path steadily.

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  • buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would have rather seen an ARM Linux board for a more modest cost

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    • lengau@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If someone who makes ARM hardware wants to make a mainboard, I’d imagine Framework will work with them under the same conditions they’re working with DeepComputing on the RISC-V one.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A $200 board with soldered 8GB RAM and 64GB storage.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s the future of RiscV.

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    • kjetil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How come?

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• TheWilliamist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?

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  • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes it supported PPC and MIPS, which are RISC platforms.

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  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.

    It’s a neat kernel, shame about the Windows on top of it.

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    • octoblade@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, porting the kernel is the “easy” part for any OS. Its the user space and building up a software ecosystem for the new architecture that is a pain in the ass.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gotta say, that is the most technical picture ever posted from lemmynsfw

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    • TheWilliamist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alpha, yes, and modern Windows has been ported to ARM.

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    • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Reminder, you can play QUAKE on RISC-V, wooohoooo

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Boardless? What, like, components connected directly to the chassis instead?

  That sounds like ass.

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  • Moose@moose.best ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s just the chassis, screen, battery, and keyboard. You would just buy one of their boards separately to go in it, or make one yourself I suppose.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah okay, thank you for explaining it to me.

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