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On 10/08/2024 19:41, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 04:51:37 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>>     In any case, if you really don't need a PI and all the I/O pins then
>>     THESE seem to be THE way to go - compact,
>>     cheap, good performance. Anything you need for a very good price.
> 
> I've been putting off getting a Pi 5. However I have a couple of Pico Ws
> that have all the IO pins I need. The new Pico 2 in intriguing. The RP2350
> ucintroller has 2 Cortex M0+ cores and two RISC-V cores. I know you can
> selelct either the Arm or RISC-V set but I don't know if you can do 1 Arm
> and one RISV-V. 

No, according to what I read, this is not possible.

I wonder if the next gen Pi will be similar. There are
> several distros that will run on RISC-V processors. Canonical has recently
> been working with PIC to put it on their 64 bit development board.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned small is beautiful.

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