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Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date:   Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:13:54 +0100

RISC-V: Corrections

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diff --git a/content/blog/2022-01-15-The-RISC-V-experience.md b/content/blog/2022-01-15-The-RISC-V-experience.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ I'm writing to you from a Sway session on Alpine Linux, which is to say from a setup quite similar to the one I usually write blog posts on, save for one important factor: a RISC-V CPU. -I'll state upfront that what I'm using is not a very practical system. I'm +I'll state upfront that what I'm using is not a very practical system. What I'm going to describe is all of the impractical hacks and workarounds I have used to build a "useful" RISC-V system on which I can mostly conduct my usual work. It has been an interesting exercise, and it bodes well for the future of RISC-V, @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ is a big step up: it's a Mini-ITX form factor (that is, it fits in a standardized PC case) with 16G of RAM, and the ethernet, microSD, and GPIO ports are complimeneted with a very useful set of additional I/O via two M.2 slots, a PCIe slot, and a USB 3 controller, plus an SPI flash chip. I have an NVMe drive -with my root filesystem on it and an AMD WX 2100 Pro GPU installed. In form, it -essentially functions like a standard PC workstation. +with my root filesystem on it and an AMD Radeon Pro WX 2100 GPU installed. In +form, it essentially functions like a standard PC workstation. [^expansion]: Plus an expansion slot which was ultimately entirely useless.