The raw specs doesn't look impressive, but network offloading and forwarding capabilities means that the cores will sit mostly idle, even under some load.
If you want to put it to the demarcation line of your network and forget it, it's a fine device. If you want to run containers and services on it, this is not it.
From the high level, yes RISC-V is open, but as far as I can tell, When a chip is designed, nothing is preventing it from being closed like this SF21H8898
what's device mode? From the datasheet: "This chip supports 1 USB interface, supports USB OTG protocol standard (USB2.0, compatible with USB1.1), and allows the device to operate as both a host and a peripheral. It can provide certain host detection capabilities, support host communication protocol (HNP) and conversation request protocol (SRP)."
Can definitely see riscv taking this segment of the market over completely in record time. Consumer routers, pro-sumer managed switches, wifi APs etc.
It looks good on paper, but more importantly if it couldn’t run on mainline Linux kernel I won’t buy it
The specs look like my multimedia Athlon XP PC from 2002, talk about embedded not being powerful enough.
The raw specs doesn't look impressive, but network offloading and forwarding capabilities means that the cores will sit mostly idle, even under some load.
If you want to put it to the demarcation line of your network and forget it, it's a fine device. If you want to run containers and services on it, this is not it.
Horses for courses, YMMV, as always.
There's not a lot of powerful RISC-V hardware out there but that's a bit beside the point.RISC-V is exciting because it's fully opensource.
From the high level, yes RISC-V is open, but as far as I can tell, When a chip is designed, nothing is preventing it from being closed like this SF21H8898
Would be great to have an option with more LAN Ports.
RISC-V new hardware is alway good news. Waiting for this ultra-performance RISC-V 64bits implementation using state of the art silicon process.
But here, has the USB controller a device mode?
what's device mode? From the datasheet: "This chip supports 1 USB interface, supports USB OTG protocol standard (USB2.0, compatible with USB1.1), and allows the device to operate as both a host and a peripheral. It can provide certain host detection capabilities, support host communication protocol (HNP) and conversation request protocol (SRP)."
>allows the device to operate as both a host and a peripheral
Likely means the device acting a s aperipheral