“HiFive Unleashed is the ultimate RISC-V developer board.”
A development board is light years away from a 19” rack mountable server with out-of-band management (lights out management) and everything else that goes into such a design. You know, the kind of hardware that is actually usable in production and not just a cool toy that might or might not spawn production systems some day. I for one am not content to just tinker with toys; I want servers so I can get some real work done.
These things don't happen by force of nature. They happen because people do the work, and we're doing the work, not moaning on HN about things that haven't happened yet.
Sorry but you (plural) are moaning about a very badly thought out processor architecture for which no hardware other than tinkertoys exist, to the point where one could equal it with the Rust evangelism strike force. I’m really sorry that is the case, especially when I think back on how awful the assembler mnemonics of RISC-V are, and how all the work being done could have made so much more difference if it had been put into OpenSPARC, as if we didn’t have enough ego trips and repetition in the computer hardware space throughout the decades already. Why reuse all the work and refine one CPU design when one can just sink countless hours of one’s life into inventing it again, right? Sorry but that is just awful. You (now in singular) will never get that time back. I silently weep for the wastefulness of humanity inside of me when I think upon this debacle that is RISC-V.
A development board is light years away from a 19” rack mountable server with out-of-band management (lights out management) and everything else that goes into such a design. You know, the kind of hardware that is actually usable in production and not just a cool toy that might or might not spawn production systems some day. I for one am not content to just tinker with toys; I want servers so I can get some real work done.