Of course people will, I'm looking forward to!
>There's also limited support for 32-bit RISC-V in distros so anyone looking to run Linux on this will need to build everything themselves.
For this kind of a device, "everything" is a kernel + your application/libraries + maybe busybox/toybox with some applets, all with XIP.
>Easier to just get a cheap ARM SoC that can probably run Android
It's at least twice as expensive for the features S31 provides. See my other messages here.
> For this kind of a device, "everything" is a kernel + your application/libraries + maybe busybox/toybox with some applets, all with XIP.
But what does Linux actually give you in a MCU? It's a lot of overhead so it has to really be worth it.