Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects

Don't suppose there's actually documentation for the CPU anywhere? (I mean more than a tiny "datasheet" with a very high level overview and/or a pile of random Linux/uboot patches)

I had a go at it a few months ago: https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/05/12/2230

Not bad at all, but the OpenWRT image still didn’t have Wi-Fi support a week or so ago, so I don’t know how good software support is going to be in the long run.

Are there any SBC with memory slot so that i can plug in 32GiB or more of RAM?

I keep seeing suggestions that theres no software support for Orange Pi.

Whats the go there? Is there no distro like Raspbian supporting it?

Absolutely smoked by rpi5, often by rpi4. To make matters worse, a radically unsupported core with no mainline support. https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-rv2-benchmarks/2

RISC-V going forward, one of the only beacons of hope in the silicon world.

I need one of such devices for my self-hosted services. And it will be time to port from C to assembly, really, because we have finally a CPU ISA which is 'sweet spot' balanced, standard, global, pushed forward with significant resources and without IP locks anywhere. No more developer/vendor lock-in via "the only compiler able to generate correct machine code", extremely hard to do planned obsolescence, etc, we need mainstream adoption NOW :)

The main blocker: how do I buy such device with a noscript/basic (x)html browser? And no way I use a credit card on a web site: would require well identified bank swift account, or wallet codes bought from local and physical currency terminals. I don't know of any local retailers I can buy such device from. Yep, the "web geniuses" at amazon (which supports wallet code) broke noscript/basic (x)html support a few years ago.

2 TOPS is not a lot for AI projects.

More info here from a few months back: https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-rv2-new-risc-v-board-revi...

I don't like RISC-V unless it has a good GPU