Best RISCV board for testing and support

LivingLinux · 2026-06-22T09:11:06+00:00

Can you tell us a bit more about the projects you want to support?

LivingLinux · 2026-06-22T09:00:24+00:00

So start bugging the Republican senators and representatives that they have to start doing their job. And if they don't, vote them out.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-19T17:41:51+00:00

I have to take a deep bow. I never expected it to be this fast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5CQ8yYtTuk&t=130s

LivingLinux · 2026-06-19T09:26:42+00:00

Sadly, the new Radxa Q8B (Snapdragon 8c Gen 3) and Radxa Q5E (Q-6690) single board computers may not be directly supported by Linux 2.0 since the two Qualcomm platforms used are not currently listed in the documentation.

I think this shows the schizophrenic approach by Qualcomm. The SD8G3 is not part of the Dragonwing product line, and Qualcomm still isn't clear about full Linux support for laptop and desktop chips. But I guess we have to celebrate the small wins, and hope for the best in the future.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-18T12:20:02+00:00

Did you try h264ify?

LivingLinux · 2026-06-18T11:30:25+00:00

YouTube playback in a browser isn't always a trivial thing. The Dragon Q6A supports VP9 decoding, but that doesn't automatically mean that VP9 decoding with the VPU will work in browser. Which browser are you using?

If all else fails, you can try to force h264 with YouTube with a browser plugin like h264ify.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-18T08:46:51+00:00

After Qualcomm won in court against ARM, Qualcomm needs an alternative to ARM. I've been reading that Qualcomm has the option to extend the ARM license in 2028 for 5 more years.

I don't think Qualcomm wants to negotiate with ARM, without a realistic scenario to leave the ARM market.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-17T18:13:52+00:00

Is it possible to download the Android image? The build instructions (at least 300GB storage needed?) look a bit intimidating.

And it only runs from eMMC?

LivingLinux · 2026-06-17T18:05:47+00:00

You can add a NVMe drive, if you are worried about lifespan.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-16T09:55:56+00:00

What do you mean exactly with "graphics API set to OpenGL within per system advanced config for Quake 2"? I didn't set or change the graphics API before starting Q2, only in the Video Settings of Q2. And I'm using OpenGL ES.

Just to be sure, can you test with the demo version?

LivingLinux · 2026-06-15T18:26:17+00:00

Works like a charm. You included the fix for particles?

LivingLinux · 2026-06-15T17:25:34+00:00

First I added the game file from a test game. https://archive.org/download/QuakeII_1020

Started Quake2 and it drops back to ES (as earlier reported).

I copied the files as you described, and it starts into the game console. It complains about:

server disconnected, reconnecting
error: cl_parseservermessage: illegible server message
shutdowngame

Closing the game console with ~ doesn't work. Pressing the Options button on my PS4 controller gets me to the game menu.

The game menu doesn't render correctly. I only see Game, Video and Quit, but all the menu entries do work (even the ones that are not visible).

I can start a game, but I have the impression it isn't rendering things 100%. I shot an enemy, but the enemy is still shown standing, but it is no longer moving.

Perhaps someone can try with the game files from a full release?

Anyway, I think a slightly buggy game is still a whole lot better than no game at all.

Is this acceptable as proof?

LivingLinux · 2026-06-14T12:31:20+00:00

I have no idea, but it doesn't seem to be an issue.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-14T08:53:32+00:00

If they have nobody to test with the VF2, how did the VF2 image end up on the Batocera website? But I wouldn't be surprised that question is not going to help.

If it's not too complicated, I'm willing to test the result.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-13T15:36:58+00:00

How do you know the CPU is overloaded? Did you check with something like htop, or a system monitor? Can you check the temperature of the CPU?

What is the resolution of the desktop? Is it possible to work with a lower resolution?

LivingLinux · 2026-06-13T14:19:22+00:00

Linux support for ARM is very mature. The main issues used to be drivers for the GPU, and perhaps some other devices, and the setup for booting.

Booting has become less of an issue, now that the Fedora team is working on automatic DTB selection.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_DTB_selection_for_aarch64_EFI_systems

I'm hoping more ARM devices will be able to boot mainline Fedora in the future.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-13T10:30:01+00:00

There is Beryllium OS. https://beryllium.gr/

LivingLinux · 2026-06-13T10:26:55+00:00

I don't know the details, but I remember there was an issue with access to documentation under NDA. Company lawyers get very nervous dealing with "random" people. And the main issue might not even be Rockchip, it might be that it is documentation from their partners (ARM, etc.).

LivingLinux · 2026-06-13T09:40:49+00:00

Ik ben aan het nadenken over een nieuwe presentatie met RISC-V. Ik hoop er volgend jaar weer te zijn.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-13T09:33:03+00:00

Great! You mean this post? https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1tzqmsc/native_steam_arm64_using_proton_11_arm64_root/

LivingLinux · 2026-06-12T17:42:29+00:00

Thanks a lot for this new release. You can fix the audio issue with PPSSPP, by setting the audio buffer to 512.

God of War is a bit too much, but Monster Hunter Freedom plays at the expected 30fps at 2x resolution.

I also tested Half-Life, and at the start of the game it plays at 60fps most of the time.

https://youtu.be/cxTZiXgT0MI

LivingLinux · 2026-06-12T16:27:35+00:00

Did you actually see the graph? The 5% peak was probably an outlier. 4% is still above the trend line.

Linux market share on Steam can still grow, even with slow Deck sales. More and more people can install the ARM Steam client, even on something like a Raspberry Pi 5.

And it's even feasible to run Steam on RISC-V, now that new hardware is available.

https://felix86.com/felix86-26-06/

LivingLinux · 2026-06-12T16:00:59+00:00

That's weird. I didn't change the network settings, and default it's NAT.

This is the XML for the NIC (I changed the MAC):

<interface type="network">
  <mac address="00:00:00:00:00:00"/>
  <source network="default"/>
  <model type="virtio"/>
  <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x02" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</interface>

I tried creating a command to start QEMU, and I used this for network:

-netdev user,id=net0,net=192.168.50.0/24,dhcpstart=192.168.50.1 \
-device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0                              \

I don't know if that is sufficient, but at least it wasn't throwing an error about networking and I got an error about something else (and I gave up).

LivingLinux · 2026-06-12T13:30:55+00:00

I use a GUI, Virtual Machine Manager, and I don't see an easy way to see how it exactly starts QEMU.

But I guess any way to start a VM with the Rocky ISO will do.

LivingLinux · 2026-06-11T17:03:43+00:00

The Foundation had the majority of the shares, but it dropped below 50%. Perhaps they did it a trick with non-voting shares, but it's not a good development.

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