Available RISC-V machine for working on the FreeBSD RISC-V arch

[tingo]

If you look on the RISC-V page on the FreeBSD wiki, you will see that many supported hardware platforms are unobtainable (discontinued / abandoned or out of stock). Here is a tip: the Clockwork DevTerm R-01 is available, even if the lead time is long (60 business days). I've recently got mine, but haven't had it long enough to try FreeBSD on it yet.

 

[robroy]

tingo, how usable do you find the miniature keyboard for touch-typing?

I eyeballed this and hesitated mainly because I didn't think it'd be comfortable enough to do a lot of typing on.

 

[tingo]

Way too early to tell, I need more hours on that keyboard first. And I'm more of a "hunt and hit" typist than a touch typist anyway.

 

[Deleted member 56028]

There's also a nootebok ready for preorder.

 

[Phishfry]

RE: Roma-preorder

Offering an unique NFT for first 100 pre-sales is defiantly a selling point....
NOT.

 

[Phishfry]

I like the layout of the DevTerm R01.
It reminds me of the Honeywell Thor's we use at work.

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[Phishfry]

I didn't think it'd be comfortable enough to do a lot of typing on.

Compared to the Pi approach I like this better. Screen embedded makes this more versatile.
For $240USD I expect more storage options. You can get a whole lot of Arm for that money.

 

[Phishfry]

Here are the currently supported platforms for RISC-V bootloader OpenSBI:

opensbi/docs/platform/platform.md at master · riscv-software-src/opensbi

RISC-V Open Source Supervisor Binary Interface. Contribute to riscv-software-src/opensbi development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[tingo]

small update: keyboard - it is actually fairly usable to type on for me, the only problem I have is that I tend to hit the buttons below the spacebar instead of the spacebar when typing.

 

[freezr]

$240...