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

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Cat@ponder.cat⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-laptop-expands-beyond-x86-with-its-first-ever-risc-v-based-motherboard/

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  • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • lengau@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the future of RiscV.

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      • kjetil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How come?

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • TheWilliamist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • TheWilliamist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    That sounds like ass.

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    • Moose@moose.best ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah okay, thank you for explaining it to me.

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