StarFive VisionFive 2

A few people got the kickstarter board to review, I decided to wait for the production version to ship, which it did a couple of days ago. So I spent most of last night and today working with the board. Getting around a couple of issues with expired repo keys and performing a massive update of over 800 packages...finally reaching a point where I could do a benchmark on it and compare it with the Raspberry Pi 4. I have one other RISC-V board but this is the first one, where I can start to experiment with it and do some development on for my home lab. If you think this is something you can plug and play...its not quite to that point. However, I like getting involved at this level, leading edge but not bleeding edge, just enough things not working to make it interesting, but enough things working where I begin doing a few tasks with it. The key take away for this video is when you are involved with a project this early in the hardware integration phase, you need to be patient, open source projects take time, and it helps everyone involved if you help out, help report problems you find, help others get it to the point where your machine is running and if you can help out with documentation. StarFive has a great start, but there will be more needs especially with getting packages and applications running. [TL;DR] Debian is a popular environment to introduce new hardware, it seems to always be the chosen distro when bring new Single Board Computers (SBC)&to light. The...