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by brucehoult 1986 days ago
People have been running Radeon graphics cards with Linux desktop and the open source driver on the predecessor HiFive Unleashed board for literally three years already.

SiFive demonstrates the HiFive Unmatched using a $300 150W Radeon RX580. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVsnnYuvDXI

You can complain that you don't want to spend that much on a graphics card [1] but you can't complain that it's not supported.

[1] cheaper ones will work too

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Then they should probably mention that on their page, which only says that graphics cards are being planned for but not currently supported.