Current state: 5x #StarFive #VisionFive2 boards on #RISCV in place for production usage:

- Primary Auth NS & NTP
- Secondary NS & NTP
- Webserver (#manpageblog)
- #snac (#Fediverse server) & #synapse (#Matrix chat server)
- #Tor relay node

#risc #riscv64 #risc64

@lattera@bsd.network @tara@hachyderm.io @stefano@bsd.cafe thank you both for mentioning me and keeping my posts in mind :)

So, when it comes to the #StarFive VF2 board I tried to collect some information in general as well as VF2 specific ones. We also have a #RISCV (#risc #risc64 #riscv64) Matrix chat in the #BSDCafe which you can find here:
#RISCV64:bsd.cafe

You can find more to regarding my initial ideas, reasons and information here: https://gyptazy.ch/misc/switching-from-arm64-to-open-riscv-hardware-architecture/

Some #VisionFive (#VisionFive2) specific things like benchmarks, images (collection) or precompiled software like #snac2 (Fediverse instance server), matrix-synapse (Matrix server), #unixbench etc can be found here:
https://gyptazy.ch/misc/collection-of-images-and-information-for-risc64-board-visionfive2/

Keep in mind that not all OS images may work fully and may lack drivers. For my #FreeBSD one for example you can just boot into memory. Debian runs quite well but still needs a custom kernel (do not upgrade the kernel unless you know what you’re doing). Even RISCV is tier 2 level in FreeBSD many things are missing. Pkg completely, ports is a mess. However, you may find QEMU RISCV images to cross-build stuff from your amd64 or ARM64 machine right here: https://gyptazy.ch/misc/freebsd-14-riscv64-build-box-image-for-qemu/

Here you can find a real life test where the board served for a day my whole website (based on #manpageblog) and some other ones:
https://gyptazy.ch/snac/gyptazy/p/1706078460.746773

Btw, here’s a #neofetch output:
https://gyptazy.ch/snac/gyptazy/p/1707391057.757603

@rena2019@social.tchncs.de @frankenmichl@metalhead.club Aus dem selben Grund wie mit der Software - offener Standard. Ziel ist es #opensource Software (#FreeBSD, #manpageblog) auf offener Hardware zu betreiben…

Just set up the new bridges for the RSS of my personal (gyptazy.ch) and manpageblog.org. If you like to get this instead of RSS you can follow the account(s) or the tag(s).

Personal (gyptazy.ch):
@blog@gyptazy.ch (tag: #gyptazy)

Manpageblog (manpageblog.org):
@manpageblog@gyptazy.ch (tag: #manpageblog)