Re: freebsd on an ebook ereader ?
- In reply to: Tomek CEDRO : "Re: freebsd on an ebook ereader ?"
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 12:18:48 UTC
I still have the old "Samsung / Google Nexus 10" tablet. I don't like Android. Any help to install FreeBSD instead of Android on this device is appreciated. Thanks. On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 10:30 PM Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 8:47 PM Mario Marietto wrote: > > Hello Tomek. > > ---> In a perfect world we could focus on RISC-V based devices. > > I don't know any RISC-V based devices. Please give me some examples. > > RISC-V is the future of computing hardware Open-Source CPU > specification that gets more and more traction around the world > starting from tiny MCU like ESP32-C3 or ESP32-C6 (WiFi and BLE > capable), along with dedicated IC for mass storage controllers (used > by WD and Seagate for instance), along with OS capable running devices > (more powerful than rPI), ending up at highly experimental designs > that you can run yourself on FPGA and will serve to design 1000 core > CPU, neural networks accelerators, building satellites and space ship > onboard systems, 128-bit+ architectures, etc etc. > > RISC-V as Open-Source design has no boundaries, no limitations, is no > subject to politics and no single group of influence/interest. Due to > lack of restrictive licensing resulting MCU/CPU chip is a lot cheaper > and thus accessible (i.e. ESP32-C3 RISC-V BLE and WiFi MCU cost around > $0.6/piece compared to $3/piece ARM Cortex-M0+ with BLE and no WiFi > and a magnitude smaller memory). > > We may not fix the past but we can prepare for the future :-) > > https://riscv.org/about/ > > https://riscv.org/exchanges/boards/ > > https://riscv.org/risc-v-developer-boards/ > > https://www.sifive.com/boards > > https://www.starfivetech.com/en/site/boards > > https://pine64.com/product/star64-model-a-8gb-single-board-computer/ > > > https://riscv.org/news/2022/09/nasa-selects-sifive-and-makes-risc-v-the-go-to-ecosystem-for-future-space-missions-sifive-business-wire/ > > > https://riscv.org/news/2020/12/et-soc-1-chip-with-more-than-1000-risc-v-cores-aimed-at-accelerating-machine-learning-abhishek-jadhav-hackster-io/ > > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/sifives-brand-new-p550-is-one-of-the-worlds-fastest-risc-v-cpus/ > > > https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?newsearch=true&queryText=risc-v > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > -- Mario.