Perfect for snooping on other people’s projects. No one in their right mind would touch this. It’s cheaper to buy the board yourself.
mhitza•Mar 29, 2026
It seems to be a Linux Foundation project, my trust is implicit higher than what you're claiming. Why wouldn't you trust them?
It's also aimed at open-source projects, for free, with the intent to improve RISC-V support.
ctz•Mar 29, 2026
people better not be snooping on my public open source projects!
LeFantome•Mar 29, 2026
RISE is supported by many legit companies. Stealing is for sure not the intent.
The idea is to promote testing on RISC-V and to eliminate lack of hardware for being the reason not to. Obviously, low budget projects and Open Source are the primary targets. Commercial products can afford real RISC-V hardware.
Yes, what a devious plan: give open source software projects a free CI service so you can... read their open source software code?
downrightmike•Mar 29, 2026
diabolical
throawayonthe•Mar 29, 2026
devious
IshKebab•Mar 29, 2026
Very good move. Hopefully GitHub won't ruin this with their CI charging changes.
woodruffw•Mar 29, 2026
I’m a fan of this, although I’m concerned about the security/trust model: using a third-party CI orchestrator on top of GHA means trusting them with all of your secrets, potentially sensitive logs, etc. Those concerns are somewhat lessened in the context of public repos, but even public repos contain nontrivial workflows that use configured secrets.
stabbles•Mar 29, 2026
My experience with RISC-V so far is that the chips are not much faster than QEMU emulation. In other words, it's very slow.
OsrsNeedsf2P•Mar 29, 2026
Oftentimes slow is fine, when the work is parallel and the hardware is cheap
LeFantome•Mar 29, 2026
That has been the case so far but is changing this year.
The SpacemiT K3 is faster than QEMU. Much faster chips are expected to release over the next few months.
I mean things like the Milk-V Pioneer were already faster but expensive.
One thing that has been frustrating about RISC-V is that many companies close to releasing decent chips have been bought and then those chips never appear (Ventana, Rivos, etc). That and US sanctions (eg. Sophgo SG2380).
camel-cdr•Mar 29, 2026
Sadly still on quite old hardware, with no RVV.
Hopefully scaleway will have some newer servers in the future and this can be simply updated to the new devices.
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It's also aimed at open-source projects, for free, with the intent to improve RISC-V support.
The idea is to promote testing on RISC-V and to eliminate lack of hardware for being the reason not to. Obviously, low budget projects and Open Source are the primary targets. Commercial products can afford real RISC-V hardware.
This is who you are trusting: https://riseproject.dev/members/
The SpacemiT K3 is faster than QEMU. Much faster chips are expected to release over the next few months.
I mean things like the Milk-V Pioneer were already faster but expensive.
One thing that has been frustrating about RISC-V is that many companies close to releasing decent chips have been bought and then those chips never appear (Ventana, Rivos, etc). That and US sanctions (eg. Sophgo SG2380).
RV64GC (C910 cores)