RISC-V SpacemiT K3 Option For Reform?

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The SpacemiT K3 supports the RVA23 profile of RISC-V. Further, the K3 has a vector processing unit and supports hardware virtualization.

There are multiple vendors selling the K3:

The RVA23 profile will be the baseline for Ubuntu and other distributions support it as well.

  1. Any thoughts on whether the SpacemiT K3 could be an option for Reform laptops (Reform, Next & Pocket)?
  2. What kind of adjustments would be necessary to use it in a Reform (Classic)?
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MNT has a Banana PI RISC-V CM5 and @minute got it to u-boot four weeks ago:

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I think @minute misspelled and meant the Banana PI CM6 which is based on a SpacemiT K1. The confusion might be the fact that the BPI-CM6 is compatible to the Raspberry CM5 carrier boards.

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this is very interesting, but it appears the CM adaptor is no longer sold?

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The Crowd Supply page still has some in CM4 adapters in stock, if you want one.

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I have plans to make a CM5 adapter.

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Thank you, I am also interested into RISC-V. An adapter would allow us platform to experiment. :slight_smile:

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