DeepComputing: Early Access Program for RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13

This JH7110 is from 2021. Some specs: https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/08/29/starfive-jh7110-risc...

1.5 GHz CPU core frequency, some old RISC-V cores while we're still waiting for cores with decent single-core performance to compete with modern desktop processors.

Sorry, but for me this board is dead in the water, unless you can't use ARM/x86 for political reasons.

It's a dev board. Reason to buy it: you need a desktop that has RISC-V cpu inside.

The problem is that it's a dev board that will likely be slower than QEMU, and is missing half of the Risc-V extensions that you want to test with. (and it supports a maximum of 8gb of ram, so good luck compiling LLVM on it)

>good luck compiling LLVM on it

4 cores, thus 2GB/core. Plenty.

make -j4 for LLVM requires about 36GB (I know because I tried with 32GB). 16 gb is almost enough to maybe build a debug build of LLVM without threading, but it will take a few hours on a chip that slow. With only 8gb, you are going to be absolutely trashing your swap (which at pcie gen 1x2 speeds will be pretty darn torturous). I'm guessing this system will take ~8 hours to build LLVM.