GDgdgghhhhh·Aug 13, 2025Submission
Possible GPL Violation by Banana Pi RiscV
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BPI-RV2-SF21H8898-OPENWRT-BSP
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BPI-RV2-SF21H8898-OPENWRT-BSP
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| Apr 21 | 2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 28 | 2025-04-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 5 | 2025-05-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 12 | 2025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 19 | 2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 26 | 2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2 | 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 9 | 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 16 | 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 23 | 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 30 | 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7 | 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 14 | 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 21 | 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 28 | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 4 | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 11 | 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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2 sourcesFYI, the previous (probably more expensive) Banana Pi BPI-F3 is faster and has more cores.
This one has 4 C908 cores @1.25GHz with VLEN=128 and the BPI-F3 has 8 X60 cores @1.6GHz with VLEN=256.
Both are simple in-order cores and they are likely even based on the same predicessor implementation.
Edit: Actually, I don't know the VLEN, but previous boards with C908 had 128-bit vectors. The IP is configurable, so it could also have a larger VLEN, or no vector support at all.
Edit2: It might be no vector support at all, since the device tree doesn't list support for the "V" extension: https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-RV2-SF21H8898-OPENWRT-BS...
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