Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V board running Linux 6.18-rc1
Introduction Five days ago, I received the Orange Pi RV2 board I ordered. For about 54 EUR / 64 USD (+ shipping), this board has very attractive features, in particular: Top view - Source Orange Pi- 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM (2 and 4 GB options exist) 8-core K1 64 bit RISC-V CPU 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports 2x M.2 M-Key PCIe2 sockets… great to plug-in PCIe devices, in particular NVME SSDs. 3x USB 3 and 1x USB 2 ports WiFi and Bluetooth 128 Mb SPI flash Micro-SD card and eMMC (not populated) Full-size HDMI Others: 2x MIPI CSI camera interfaces, MIPI DSI display connector, general purpose headers, buttons, jack audio… All this is amazing, and if not for the slower CPU compared to Raspberry Pi 4 (according to reviews I read), this board could be more appealing than the Raspberry Pi 5 itself, which has just one Gigabit Ethernet port, no SPI flash and needs an additional “HAT” to connect just one PCIe device. Raspberry Pi 5 has two HDMI ports though, sadly micro-HDMI ones. ...