Also, is there any (low cost?) FPGA board that is capable of running RISC-V + Li...

kbeckmann · on Nov 16, 2017

Found this blog with someone who bought an FPGA devkit[1] for £260 and managed to boot Linux on it[2].

[1] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/risc-v-on-an-fpga-pt-1...

[2] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/07/26/risc-v-on-an-fpga-pt-4...

phkahler · on Nov 16, 2017

That's been going on for some time. This is probably not the best link, but it's one of the conversations:

https://forums.sifive.com/t/building-linux-for-custom-u500/2...

I assumed SiFive was waiting for the privileged instructions to be finalized before making real chips. But people have been running Linux on their stuff on FPGA for a while now.