Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects
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·September 15, 2025protocolture
I keep seeing suggestions that theres no software support for Orange Pi.
Whats the go there? Is there no distro like Raspbian supporting it?
ekianjo
More info here from a few months back: https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-rv2-new-risc-v-board-revi...
jauntywundrkind
Absolutely smoked by rpi5, often by rpi4. To make matters worse, a radically unsupported core with no mainline support. https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-rv2-benchmarks/2
kirito1337
I don't like RISC-V unless it has a good GPU
warrenm
GPUs are [effectively] irrelevant for many use cases (IoT, embedded, most servers, etc)
_zoltan_
the title says "... AI projects". now, maybe our definitions are different, but you probably want some hardware acceleration.
webdevver
they all suck. someone needs to make an open source gpu already, its been way too long.
timschmidt
We did back in 2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project
And there have been some others as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...
Recently https://www.furygpu.com/
Part of the problem is that every ASIC manufacturer (and indeed each fabrication process) has a different toolchain with a different set of primitives for circuit design. Yosys and other open tooling for FPGAs has helped a great deal in lowering the barrier to chip design and by association reuse of circuits. But every ASIC, at the moment, is tied to some vendor's PDK. Here's the one Google open sourced for Cypress Semi's SKY130 process node: https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk
ekianjo
It's probably a series of patent landmines...
AnthonyMouse
Hardware patents are orthogonal to open source software. If a patent covers the hardware then someone who wants to manufacture the hardware needs to license the patent, but you were never going to get free-as-in-beer hardware anyway, and a hardware patent is independent of whether the hardware is fully documented or has firmware with published source code and a license that allows users to make changes to it.
snvzz
Attach your favourite GPU at the PCIe slot.
Are there any SBC with memory slot so that i can plug in 32GiB or more of RAM?