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by sacnoradhq 1257 days ago
Not this board, but a $$ RISC-V from Xilinx's PolarFire does:

- Yocto Linux BSP

- Buildroot Linux BSP

- Embedded Linux from Siemens Embedded

- FreeBSD (coming soon)

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/fpgas-and-plds/syst...

1 comments

Polarfire FPGAs are not Xilinx! Which means you can't use things like https://f4pga.readthedocs.io ATM, or tools from Xilinx. Instead being chained to whichever proprietary stuff Microchip decides to deliver for dealing with the FPGA-part.

I've looked at the board, and don't see the appeal in price, for only mediocre CPU-parts, not enough RAM, altough good enough I/O-options. Makes no sense if you don't want to meddle with FPGAs, and just look for a fast SBC with Risc-V.

To me, at least.

I meant MicroChip. Take a chill pill.