I am thinking about getting one as a small server. How is the software support? I heard Box86 has had improvements and even that is pretty good!
Does NixOS run on it, do you use other RISC-V boards?
As far as I understand
- there is no first party binary cache for RISC-V, support is experimental
- There are 2 third party binary caches by community members. Use at own risk I guess.
- there are SD images for various devices but not this one. Why exactly are they needed, doesn’t a normal install work? What would be a similar platform to derive from?
Unless it is supported on the mainline kernel, I wouldnt invest in it. It seems all their “supported” systems are custom, so no upstream support?
Specs
RAM & Storage
- Available in 4GB / 8GB LPDDR4X
- Optional eMMC modules (16GB to 128GB)
- Dual M.2 M-Key PCIe 2.0 for high-speed NVMe SSDs
-bMicroSD card slot for extended storage
Connectivity
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- Wi-Fi 5.0 & Bluetooth 5.0 (BLE)
- 3x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0
- HDMI 2.0 (1920×1440 @ 60Hz)
Multimedia Support
- Dual MIPI-DSI display interfaces
- Dual MIPI-CSI camera interfaces
GPIO & Expansion
- 26-pin GPIO header: I2C, SPI, UART, PWM, and more
- 3-pin serial debug header
OS Support (all seem to be custom)
- Compatible with Ubuntu 24.04
- OpenHarmony 5.0
- Android
- OpenWrt