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Recently Christopher Barnatt on his YouTube channel ExplainingComputers has spent a week attempting to “live off the land” in a purely RiscV environment. In some respects it a great demo of how far things have come. A large portion what you would expect to work is in place, however some basic functionality such as the inability to use Yubikeys to authenticate via the browser (probably an issue with the libu2f-udev libraries) and the inability to run complex application with many dependancies such as Kdenlive/Blender.

In an interview conducted by Jeff Geerling, Eben Upton discussed the possibility of migrating from ARM to RISCV for the next generation of Raspberry PI. Eben indicated that the main barrier was familiarity with ARM within the Raspberry PI foundation and the lack of maturity of tooling for RISCV. He did hint that if they were to move to RISCV it would be at the low end/microcontroller level first. Time link to the RISCV part of the interview here.