Nezha RISC-V Linux SBC

Nezha RISC-V Linux SBC

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Nezha RISC-V SBC review, including the hardware specification of this AllWinner D1 board, and demos running Linux images from both Sipeed and RVBoards. If you like this video, you may also be interested in my review of the VisionFive RISC-V SBC here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PoWAsBOsFs Information on and software resources for the Nezha SBC are already extensive, and include: Sipeed Nezha on AliExpress (the 'Standard Bundle' here is what I purchased and show in the video): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002856721588.html RVBoards Nezha on AliExpress (the same hardware branded from a different supplier): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002668194142.html T-Head Open Chip Community Nezha page (T-Head designed the RISC-V core used in the board's D1 SoC): https://occ.t-head.cn/community/risc_v_en/product/detail?id=RVB-D1 AllWinner Online Learning / Developer Academy (in Chinese at the time of uploading this video, so you may need to use Google Translate): https://www.aw-ol.com/ In particular on AWOL, see the introduction to the Nezha SBC here: https://d1.docs.aw-ol.com/en/study/study_5connect/ Sipeed Nezha support page: https://bbs.sipeed.com/thread/472 The Debian desktop image I installed that had default HDMI output is called 'RVBoards_D1_Debian_lxde_img_linux_v0.4.gz' and was downloaded via: http://perfxlab.cn:8080/rvboards/ Along with many demos, the above image and its use is detailed here: https://d1.docs.aw-ol.com/en/strong/strong_4debian/#version-v04 And this RVBoards page is also very useful: https://www.rvboards.org/mkdocs/en/Debian/ As is this very list of Nezha / AllWinner D1 SBC resources: https://ovsienko.info/D1/ A FINAL NOTE! There are a lot of Linux images available for the Nezha from various sources. However, they come in two formats. Firstly are what we may call 'standard' image files -- specifically img or compressed img files -- that can can be written to a microSD card using Etcher, or the dd command in Linux, and which are therefore sometimes referred to 'Linux images'. Secondly, there are images that have to be written to a microSD card using an AllWinner utility called Phoenix card, which is often used to re-image Android devices. These images are sometimes called 'Windows images', as Phoenix card is only available for Windows. More videos on SBCs and wider computing and related topics can be found at http://www.youtube.com/explainingcomputers You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: http://www.youtube.com/explainingthefuture Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:58 Unboxing 03:27 Specification 07:07 Debian 10:28 Debian HDMI 12:55 RISC-V Development #RISC-V #Nezha #AllWinner #D1 #ExplainingComputers

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@jino139 Says:
❤️
@hasnomoney1800 Says:
I want to get a rick v board but I fell every year it gets better and better. So I might just have to wait a year or 2.
@mihailvormittag6211 Says:
👍
@Alfonso6143 Says:
Muchas gracias por traducir al español. Me suscribo a su canal. Saludos
@freakinccdevilleiv380 Says:
It would be cool if you tried to recompile the kernel with some customizations on the board itself.
@haploguy Says:
12:25 🤣🤣🤣
@lencifrarinster5325 Says:
According to the 4 orange Chinese Character (全志在綫) on the box, I think AWOL means AllWinner Online
@CrossPlatformAdventures Says:
Wow, thanks for reviewing this board so I do not buy one!
@jeremyloveslinux Says:
There’s an official Ubuntu image out for this board now, you should check it out!
@ChickenPermissionOG Says:
cold joint on one of the header pins
@josgraha Says:
I love your channel sir!
@monkeymania2719 Says:
Great video! I’d really love to see another sbc week video. Maybe a raspberry pi 400 week, or any other risc V week? Always enjoy your content!
@micaiahflores1592 Says:
The pine64 team is also Gearing up for risc and I’m excited for that
@MarquisDeSang Says:
I managed to make everything work on mine. It took me 8 hours to install the proper image with their horrible burning software and 4 hours of configuring everything on it : proper path for apt, setting locales, creating proper account, installing mosh, installing gdb, git, emacs... Now it works perfectly with my iPad BLINK and from the television. If you need help, you can ask me in this comment, I will try to help you.
@SkepticalCaveman Says:
I wonder if RISC-V versikn of Haiku OS can run on this hardware.
@_Areknames_ Says:
Great, how much watt does it consume when idle? thank you
@MarquisDeSang Says:
Just oreded one on aliexpress.
@LarixusSnydes Says:
Nice to see, but 1GB of memory is quite minimal for modern desktop environment applications, even with frugal X-environments such as XFCE.
@YourHoss Says:
Love your channel! Keep up the good work.
@tld8102 Says:
what programs can you run with a risk v chip running linux
@ericlawrence9060 Says:
Ali baba makes this. I wonder what security risks these things contain.
@staninjapan07 Says:
Another very well put-together video that I am sure meant a lot to tech-savvy developers and tinkerers, but which to me was just an interesting way to learn that this is not for me. Never mind, it's always worth my while watching your videos even though I have too little tech-know-how to understand quite why this is not better than, say, a Raspberry Pi 4 for me. Just a few more great videos like this one and I will be on my way to choosing a simple but reliable backup for my old laptop which runs Linux Mint 20. Thanks a lot.
@ovalwingnut Says:
Finally, investing in a RISKy business can actually be a good thing. Very COoL. Dunka.
@ame8973 Says:
Nice Video! A very interesting detail about the Allwinner D1 SoC is, that it implements RISC-V Vector extension (RVV Draft 0.7.1).
@ferdousazamkhan9840 Says:
Amazing, we are finally moving forward to get open computing hardware too.
@crankmosh Says:
super overpriced for a single core... it's not that difficult to make multicore RISC-V
@raghavendraraghu4988 Says:
Your hair cut it's good
@lee-enfield0247 Says:
Restate sani.
@MorgothCreator Says:
Hmm, lot weaker, the die a lot smaller, no ISA royalties but at last triple as expensive than an RPi4, I am missing something? Everything I seen with RISC-V is a ripoff. This way RISC-V has no chance to become broadly adopted. I prefer FPGA implementations of RISC-V even if is a lot slower I'm not bound to scarcity in features of those chips, I begin to believe that they intentionally design those chips so poorly, to never take off.
@PinakiGupta82Appu Says:
Although RISC-V is in its early stages of development, soon it will take over the lead and leave the ARM ISC far behind to become the be-all and end-all ISC solution out there. RISC-V is the future, ARM is not. I'm slightly sceptical about the development of the proprietary extensions because of the license conditions of this CPU architecture. It may be possible for the manufacturers to create custom extensions that they'd like to keep private and prefer not to contribute their versions back to the Open Source community. It has happened in history if we look back and see how the ARM ISC that we see today has evolved. Nevertheless, if big players like Texas Instruments and NVIDIA (with an open mind) come to develop RISC-V, we might see the next generation of computing very soon. But the corporations I mentioned have never been very friendly towards the Open Source community. NVDIA's hostility to the free software movement is an unforgettable historical chapter in the world of computers. I'll add one more thing to assure you, the analogue-digital hybrid types of Logic Processing Units are on the way which will declare the D-Day to today's practical general-purpose computers. They will have an analogue Matrix Multiplier Unit, an analogue Differential Equation Solver Unit, a different kind of analogue Adder and so on. They won't consume that much energy as compared to today's hard-to-afford ultra-high-end GPUs. Training the AI models from a data set will be a thing done in the blink of an eye. Today's digital-only type computers will be a thing of the past. Since RISC-V is an open architecture, only it can help us to get there by stripping down the R&D expenditure. 👍👍
@rwprime1 Says:
Don't know where else to ask this (it's about the Raspberry Pi). I see that Raspberry Pi OS Buster has just been updated to use Wayland - I wonder what kind of video playback you would get now? Hopefully a decrease in dropped frames.
@chriholt Says:
Very interesting Chris. Is that multiple microphone connector a standard pinout?
@johng7rwf419 Says:
Thanks, just a few shillings from the coffers. Many thanks for your videos. J
@lightly-red-huedmaleindivi6266 Says:
What are the advantages of RISC-V? Why would a regular end-user care about it?
@VulcanOnWheels Says:
7:33 What is OTG short for?
@Bretts_Lab Says:
Very cool.
@paulbirch8576 Says:
The ‘ol’ does not stand for open learning, but online. The Chinese characters on the box are 全志在线 (quanzhi zaixian), or ‘Allwinner Online.
@covidnineteen4304 Says:
AWOL stands for Absent Without Leave🤣
@paulo.galvao Says:
Is good to see now that Risc-V is start flying
@energymarketchile Says:
Thanks for your work. Greetings from Ottawa.
@minigpracing3068 Says:
Clockwork Devterm also has a RISC-V "core" module now, only $30usd and fits in a Pi compute model 3 board. I almost ordered one with my Devterm order yesterday but decided I want to wait for more processor cores, or at least more RAM. If you have CM3 stuff it might be worth looking at to see how well it will work.
@EvanWilliamsofPrinceton Says:
Your best review yet!
@TheFartfish Says:
Food for algorithm ;-)
@georgekokotis5732 Says:
Great video as always Mr. Barnatt! I have a question, although a bit out of place: I am pretty sure there is/was one of your videos on which you elaborated on how to get a youtube api key for kodi. Could you please provide a pointer or suggest a reliable instructional video? Many thanks
@fireball-u9q Says:
boot failure detect problem how to fix gigabyte board
@josephkelly4893 Says:
So exciting to see a monopoly breaker like this, thanks Chris for your video.
@pgperkos Says:
Very very encouraging! Kinda scary seeing 24% CPU usage throu htop, must remember "development board"
@grigoris.7732 Says:
I love how well this gentleman explains in small words, sharply and clearly.
@replikvltyoutube3727 Says:
Wow one more risc v computer. Thanks for review!
@cryzz0n Says:
Amazing to see these early stages of a new CPU architecture

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