HiFive Unmatched Software and Hardware

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SiFive’s mini‑ITX RISC‑V desktop called HiFive Unmatched is a FU740-based board: quad RV64 cores (rv64gc feature set), bumped to 16GB soldered DDR4, NVMe M.2 and an PCIe x16 slot hosting an RX580 GPU. Boot uses OpenSBI + U‑Boot + Linux (dev kernel based on 5.10.9 with patches landing in 5.11/5.12); about 20–25 board patches exist (device tree, clocks, L2 and PCI drivers) and a Mesa fix was merged. It boots Debian natively, runs X with an observed ~43 FPS demo, but PCI/USB boot in U‑Boot and some firmware (USB hub) remain incomplete.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:26HiFive Unmatched
3. 1:59What is it
4. 2:59Block Diagram
5. 3:36New Processor
6. 3:59Desktop Setup
7. 5:00OpenSBI
8. 8:05Open SBI
9. 9:12Linux
10. 10:03PCI Driver
11. 11:08Device Tree
12. 13:44Clock Driver
13. 14:36L2 Cache Controller
14. 15:35Bus Error Unit
15. 15:57New Driver
16. 16:50Page Fault Handler
17. 17:14Running Debian
18. 20:15Unmatched Hardware
19. 21:17Demo
20. 23:05Display Manager
21. 26:47Favorite Use Case
22. 28:00Why Use HiFive
23. 28:48HiFive Laptops
24. 30:34Uboot vs OpenSBI
25. 32:30No single HiFive configuration
26. 34:03HiFive is open
27. 35:25Conclusion

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