[RISC-V][Devboards Program] January 15th, 2026 - West-friendly

[Greg Sterling]

Update: Clearly I cannot be trusted to copy/paste text.  The next meeting is today.  Please everyone who attends, feel free to embarass me for making this confusing.  I'm tweaking a few things in the notice to reduce the amount of mistakes I may be able to make.  Thanks for your patience, and I look forward to people giving me a hard time! 

Local times for the upcoming DevBoards meeting can be found by logging into LFX at https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/ or going to the Tech Meetings calendar at https://tech.riscv.org/calendar/.

The agenda will focus on standard topics:

• Program updates from RISC-V
• Board and Project updates
• Future Board Program Discussion
• What's cool? (time permitting)
  

Any topics, updates, or information can as always either be raised at the beginning of the meeting or by adding it to our agenda document, Dev Board Group Minutes.  Please note we have migrated to Confluence for meeting minutes.  Please reach out if you have any issues viewing the meeting minutes.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

[Han Gao]

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[Greg Sterling]

Thanks all for another great Dev Boards community meeting!

Notes

Board Updates (Beagle, SiFive, StarFive, RIOS, Allwinner, Microchip, SpacemIT, Milk-V)

·       SpacemiT gets new funding ($86m US) and K3 mass production expected in April

·       https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/12/milk-v-titan-a-329-octa-core-64-bit-risc-v-mini-itx-motherboard-with-a-pcie-gen4-x16-slot/

·       https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/31/visionfive-2-lite-sbc-review-ubuntu-24-04-on-a-low-cost-risc-v-sbc-in-2026/

·       https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/28/bit-brick-cluster-k1-a-4-slot-risc-v-cluster-board-for-spacemit-k1-based-ssom-k1-system-on-module/

·       https://baochip.com/ RV32EC Programmable IO System

·       https://x.com/revy4rv/status/2007339000156303576 (on Allwinner v861 by Revy)

Program Updates:

·       oreboot

·       U-Boot

·       Firmware

o   Thread started in the profiles meeting about how we want to deal with profiles in firmware (exposure to components like ACPI).

§  Because there is no cert/compliance suite, the kernel has been “adopted” for this, but keeping things forward compatible, while recognizing that older profiles are not able to be certified against.

·       Operating Systems

o   BSD - FreeBSD, NetBSD

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o   Linux - AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, Alpine Linux, Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Canonical, OpenEuler, NixOS

§  Security Patches

§  https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-RISC-V-Side-Channel

§  https://www.phoronix.com/news/Spectre-V1-RISC-V-Patches

o   Other - seL4, Android AOSP, Managarm

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·       Images

o   Development - Gentoo, FedoraVForce (Mirror US)

o   Containers

§  [Bruno] Docker v29.1.4 for RISC-V64 , Node.js v24.13.0 for RISC-V 64, and Node.js v22.22.0 for RISC-V 64.

·       Compilers

·       CI/CD

·       RISC-V International

o   Developer Board Status: Monthly Status Report, Final Status Report

o   Dev Boards Applications

§  On hold as we plan for 2026

§  RVA23 Board Watchlist

§  SpacemiT K3 60 TOPS (and SpacemiT K5 120 TOPS, possibly on a TSMC 3N process node, possible April release)

§  Tenstorrent Ascalon (Samsung SF4X process node)

§  RVA23 Board Interest

§  Andes AX66 / Cuzco (5nm process node)

§  Nuclei UX1030H (22 nm process node)

§  Ventana V2 (32 core; TSMC 3N process node)

What’s cool?:

·       https://riscv.org/world-risc-v-days/ (Feb 23-27, 2026)

·       DHRUV64: India’s First 1.0GHz 64-bit dual-core Microprocessor

·       https://mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink/

·       Unreal Tournament 99 Running on RISC-V - YouTube (BOX64 on VisionFive 2 and AMD GPU)

·       https://box86.org/2026/01/new-box64-v0-4-0-released/

·       https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Xqci-LLVM-Stable

Miscellaneous notes:

·       https://www.techradar.com/pro/arm-sheds-billions-in-market-capitalization-after-qualcomm-hints-at-risc-v-adoption-with-ventara-micro-acquisition

·       https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/12/qualcomm-acquires-ventana-micro-systems--deepening-risc-v-cpu-ex

·       https://www.spacemit.com/en/news/spacemit-makes-important-breakthroughs-in-risc-v-high-performance-cores/

·       https://www.eetimes.com/globalfoundries-mips-to-buy-arc-ip-business-from-synopsys/