[RISC-V][Devboards Program] April 16th, Devboards Program, 2025 - West-friendly

[Greg Sterling]

Our next meeting will be tomorrow.  Local times 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?
  
• Misc Notes

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 (moved back to Google Docs).  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)

[Greg Sterling]

Thanks all for another great meeting.  Here are the meeting minutes:

Board Updates

Beagle, SiFive, StarFive, RIOS, Allwinner, Microchip, SpacemIT, Milk-V

• Milk-V Titan appears to still be in the pre-order phase

• [linuxgizmos] Pine64 confirmed at FOSDEM PineTab2 and PineNote Paused

• Global DRAM Shortage :/

• “Will the SpacemiT K3 launch this month?”

• Continuing to see ‘April’ as the target

• [deepcomputing] Mainboard III from Framework Laptop 13 - Early Access

• [eetimes] Alibaba Launches XuanTie C950 CPU for Agentic AI

Program Updates

• oreboot

• U-Boot

• Firmware

• Operating Systems

• BSD - FreeBSD, NetBSD

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

• [theregister] Linux 7.0 Debuts, Linux Ponders AI’s Bug-Finding Powers

• [cnx-software] Linux 7.0 Release w/ Additional RISC-V Support

• [youtube] Linux 7.0 Released

• Canonical Prepping for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS & RVA23

• [ubuntu] RISC-V 101 - What is it and What Does it Mean for Canonical

• [phoronix] RISC-V Optimized strnlen for Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up

• [phoronix] More RVA23 Functionality Expected for Linux 7.1

• [phoronix] Beagle Ahead To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1

• [zephyr] Zephyr RTOS 4.4 Now Available: WireGuard, Wi-Fi Direct, OpenRISC…

• Compilers/Development

• [thelec] Linux 7.0 Released With Official Rust Language Support

• [canonical] Ubuntu 26.04 defaults to Rust 1.93.1 Setting RVA23 Build Default

• [gnu] RISC-V Compiler Flags (GCC16)

• -march=rva23u64 becoming the standard for many 2026 Linux Distros

• -mtune=<processor> for tuning to specific silicon

• CI/CD

• No publicly accessible board combines H ext (v1.0 ratified) + AIA today. Are RVA23-compliant boards coming to the program, and how can hypervisor projects like Xen get early access?

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What’s Cool

• [eetimes] SiFive $400M Round

• [github] Tenstorrent build a BMC - WallaBMC - Using Zephyr

• Works on P550 as a prototype, TT looking for community feedback

• [github] RISC-V Functional Model Simulator w/ Sub-step Hooking (Pegasus)

• [eetimes] Turning RISC-V Standards Into Products That Ship (Andes Interview)

• [bisinfotech] Ubitium “Universal Processor” Taped Out

• https://demozoo.org/productions/389921/ - check out YouTube video for the demo only using RISC-V cores