[FFmpeg-devel] Buying and hosting a HiFive RISC-V system

Joel Linn jl at conductive.de
Sun Jan 10 22:50:41 EET 2021


Keep in mind though that the RISC-V Vector Extensions (which btw look 
really smart and promising) are not implemented in the SiFive Unmatched 
Chip yet (iIrc). But one has to start somewhere and some future embedded 
devices like will also lack those.

On 2021-01-10 21:39, chen wrote:
> In my evaluate, the RISC-V code density is 60% compare to ARM, with
> C-Extension, it raise to 80%
> it may be a big problem play large ffmpeg on really products, but we
> have more space to improve ffmpeg on it.
> 
> 
> At 2021-01-11 04:21:07, "Kieran Kunhya" <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Lynne has suggested on IRC that we purchase one or more of these:
>> https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
>> 
>> I think this is an interesting idea as RISC-V is an important platform 
>> for
>> the future (like M1).
>> I'll likely have to buy from Mouser (as I'm not sure SPI will accept
>> CrowdSupply) and there is a long lead-time for it:
>> https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/SiFive/HF105-000?qs=zW32dvEIR3vHEV%2FPYYkdMA==
>> 
>> Also, I'll have to claim for a case and M.2 SSD.
>> 
>> I am happy to host this like with the Apple M1.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Kieran Kunhya
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