| 18 Jun 2024 |
 Alex | Yes, most of us already have JH7110-based boards.
It's really only practical if you want to do RISC-V hacking on the go. | 14:53:13 |
 @cnx:loang.net | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
Interesting choice given that the SG2380 should release in Q3 of 2024. That is RVA23(-ish) compared to the RV64GC of JH7110. the jh7110 is very well mainlined, but true it's quite weak for a laptop | 15:13:09 |
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 fgaz | In reply to @cnx:loang.net
the jh7110 is very well mainlined, but true it's quite weak for a laptop The entire point of the framework is to be able to upgrade it, so I think it makes sense even if it's underpowered | 17:28:04 |
| @cnx:loang.net | yea but with wirth's law it's not suitable for general computing in current year | 17:33:58 |
| @cnx:loang.net | developers have been spoiled with really powerful amd64 compooters, laptops from almost a decade ago are still really usable today and they're much more powerful than the mid-level risc-v soc we've seen so far | 17:37:17 |
 Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | In reply to @cnx:loang.net
the jh7110 is very well mainlined, but true it's quite weak for a laptop not that it's weak for a laptop but that it's "profile" (if you can even call it that) is RV64GC which is very basic | 17:44:01 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | while the "real" profiles which will be on servers (yes they're coming soon) will be using RVA23 | 17:44:30 |
 Tristan Ross | What's the difference between RVA23 and RV64GC? | 17:46:35 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | Which has all the fancy extensions and more importantly, platform features like Sv57 | 17:47:06 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
What's the difference between RVA23 and RV64GC? https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/src/rva23-profile.adoc | 17:47:12 |
| * Pratham Patel (you can mention me) logs off for the night (IST) | 17:47:40 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/src/rva23-profile.adoc Oh nice | 17:47:54 |
| Tristan Ross | Floating points and vectors will be great to have | 17:48:23 |
| Tristan Ross | Hopefully chips go with a good implementation of things in the silicon | 17:48:56 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | before I log off; think of RV64GC as Arm-v8 and RVA23 as SBBR or whatever they call their Server Platform base thingy | 17:49:18 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
Floating points and vectors will be great to have g already contains imafd ;) | 17:49:46 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
before I log off; think of RV64GC as Arm-v8 and RVA23 as SBBR or whatever they call their Server Platform base thingy Ooh, hopefully this brings RISC-V chips a bit closer to being more performant | 17:51:22 |
| Tristan Ross | In reply to @thefossguy:matrix.org
g already contains imafd ;) Didn't realize that | 17:51:31 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | ranted here in more detail
https://matrix.to/#/!GhnNOKFLyvWBmnjqRS:fedoraproject.org/$9FGD8-67N7zQIhfMbWZKBqCa3qT9zq6l25iGim11ifY?via=fedoraproject.org&via=matrix.org&via=fedora.im | 17:53:20 |
| Alex | In reply to @rosscomputerguy:matrix.org
Didn't realize that More precisely, G is shorthand for IMAFD_Zicsr_Zifencei. | 18:21:37 |
| Tristan Ross | Oh, I know zicsr and zifencei | 18:35:38 |
| 22 Jun 2024 |
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| 24 Jun 2024 |
 Mic92 | We are just one pull request away from having our first image for nixos-anywhere: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/321991 | 13:27:36 |
| Mic92 | However I currently don't have hardware that I can kexec on, so I would appreciate if someone could run a test of it. | 13:28:08 |
| Mic92 | Image itself will be here: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-images/pull/243 | 13:28:19 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | Oh wow, didn't know we came this far! | 13:29:14 |
| Mic92 | nix-community.cachix.org will than also cache some core-components for cross compiling NixOS from x86 to riscv64. | 13:29:20 |
| Pratham Patel (you can mention me) | *we've come | 13:29:20 |
