[edwintorok]

Interesting, I had the opposite experience: the GUI was very slow and nearly unusable on most RISC-V boards that I have, except the LicheePi4a. But that is probably just due to the GPU (which unfortunately doesn't have open source drivers yet?), and not the CPU, and they're all running different kernels and distros. When I have some time I'll need to compare again with the latest distro available for each, and also a fully open source one.

[snvzz]

re: GPU, mesa3d side (vulkan driver) is merged upstream. OpenGL/CL/GLES are via Zink.

powervr is working into getting the drm side merged to the kernel, too.

[sylware]

You have to keep in mind that since RISC-V is an ISA standard, C[gcc] coded kernels are here for legacy support purpose. The C[gcc] language is not appropriate anymore, assembly coded is the right(tm) way.

[CyberDildonics]

What is this supposed to mean? You think someone is going to rewrite linux in assembly language?