friend asked me about the options for a risc-v dev kit that worked
with YP, and i'm aware of the meta-riscv layer, but wherever i looked,
it seems like risc-v dev kits have a very short life span, being either
put on hold or outright cancelled (beaglev, hifive unmatched, etc.)

are there, in fact, any reasonable risc-v dev boards out there?

rday

Quoting Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@...>:

I think the best option at this point is qemu. Why does the 'friend' need
physical hardware? :)

he's a hacker and just likes the feel of circuit boards, but
qemu does look like the only feasible option at the moment.

rday

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Quoting Leon Woestenberg <leon@...>:

Hello Robert, Alexander,

On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 23:04, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...> wrote:

Quoting Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@...>:

I think the best option at this point is qemu. Why does the 'friend' need
physical hardware? :)

he's a hacker and just likes the feel of circuit boards, but
qemu does look like the only feasible option at the moment.

No. There is a sweet middle ground called FPGAs. You buy a board, with an
IC on it, that is expensive as hell, empty like air, but fully
re-configurable with almost any RISC-V SoC you can think of.

For example the Rocket 64 bit RISC-V.

hmmm ... not even that expensive a board:

https://www.luffca.com/2021/09/linux-litex-rocket-arty/
https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/1-elhaap.html

rday