Linux 6.10 Adds Support For The RISC-V Milk-V Mars & More SoC Additions

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.10 Adds Support For The RISC-V Milk-V Mars & More SoC Additions

Last week the main SoC/platform updates were sent in for Linux 6.10 that included more ARM-based handheld game consoles and other new Arm devices from ASUS wireless routers to set-top boxes to enabling various SoCs. This week a secondary set of updates were submitted for the Linux 6.10 kernel merge window...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-More-SoCs

[ayumu]

the milk-v mars is a ~$50+ usd risc-v sbc using the starfive jh7100

jh7110.

[Old Grouch]

I wish more of these SBCs had two on-board Ethernet ports so it was more easy and convenient to use them as single box low power-draw routers.

I fully understand that one can use a USB dongle, but that's not exactly neat and tidy - a single box low power-draw device would just be nice. It's a wish.

But as my mother would say: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

I also wish the Kobol Helios64 NAS had not gone out of production.

[pong]

I wish more of these SBCs had two on-board Ethernet ports so it was more easy and convenient to use them as single box low power-draw routers.

I fully understand that one can use a USB dongle, but that's not exactly neat and tidy - a single box low power-draw device would just be nice. It's a wish.

But as my mother would say: "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride."

I also wish the Kobol Helios64 NAS had not gone out of production.

Yes it is annoying.
Particularly since USB Ethernet devices are 96% horrible (driver issues, unclear details about chip ID / revision / errata / benchmarks / driver quality for buyers, kind of dead-end at 2.5 Gbps and single port vs PCIE attached options, ...).

If one had enough back-end infrastructure to support it (switches, servers / routers, whatever) one could try to do a 1:N link multiplex / demultiplex over the single port NIC to the equivalent of multiple links via VLANs or independent tunnels / VPNs but that really defeats the point of "single small box, low power, ...." as compared to just using a desktop or box full of networking gear.