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It’s really quite amazing to login a linux shell on an orangecrab FPGA running a RISV-V softcore, built using an open source toolchain. That was impossible not so long ago! At best you’d have something like Xilinx PetaLinux and all their proprietary junk.



Fun thing is that orangecrab's FPGA is not even a requirement.

A tiny iCE40 LP1K will fit SERV (and even QERV) no prob.

It's amazing how small a fully compliant RISC-V implementation can be.


This is and will be a rallying moment soon for the community, both open hardware and software finally working together! This will be huge by the end of the decade.


I guess using some local definition of "huge".


> This is and will be a rallying moment soon for the community

My guy this thing is 4 years old. Spoiler alert: it wasn't.




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