On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 04:25:36AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 4:26 PM, ronwirring@safe-mail.net wrote:
https://www.sifive.com/products/risc-v-core-ip/u54-mc/
What can we expect from this cpu? There is no gpu, you cannot get a board which has a display port?
yeh bizarre, isn't it? they basically expect you to use its external bus to connect a (expensive) FPGA to, do the conversion to something-or-other, and to connect an HDMI interface or RGB/TTL interface etc. etc. yourself, implementing the display logic in a hybrid of software-plus-FPGA.
or do connect a standard graphics card via PCIe.
each of which is an awful lot of work / money.
now, if *they* created a dev-kit which had that already *done*.... then... great!
l.
If they have ethernet you could connect from another computer that does have graphics using X. This doesn't make it *totally* useless. It could be used in a headless server, for example -- a place where you might need to avoid built-in spyware.
-- hendrik