Reminder: Meeting changed to use LFX calendaring, some changes are still under investigation. Meeting is available to join through Zoom using https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/96512814617?password=ea39d44a-4aa4-4c42-8dd2-5ab41f68ebaf
Attendees: Greg, Carl, Felix, Darren, Heinrich, Lance, Kanak, Leon, Yu Bo, Marvin, Paul, Axel, Jeff, Daniel
Board Updates:
SiFive
In the news a lot regarding AI/ML workload enablement
SpacemiT
Working on a port of Android now that AOSP15 is out
LM3 module has started shipping (may have problems as a drop in Lichee Pi 4A)
First uboot patches are becoming available
Program Updates:
Arch Linux
Linux 6.10+ breaks Chromium’s memory allocator (still awaiting for a fix)
Basic graphical environment (llvmpipe only) demo on Roma 2 (Thanks DeepComputing!)
Demo on HiFive Premier P550 (Thanks Eswin!)
Demo on PolarFire SoC Icicle Kit, figured out how to update FPGA design and HSS this time. RuyiSDK’s documentation helped a lot!
Fixed a v8 performance regression affecting Electron >=26, Node.js >=21, and Chromium.
pypy riscv64 JIT supported by upstream, and bootstrapped on Arch RISC-V
gcc: cherry pick a8f1b00e (tree-optimization/116057 - wrong code with CCP and vector CTORs), this fixes various V8 bugs
strace’s test suite reveals a kernel UABI design flaw that needs a discussion.
Debian
Preparing one p550 for debci.
SUSE
BananaPi BPI-F3s were delivered on the 18th, started setting boards up
openSUSE Hackweek!
Canonical
Playing around and investigation KVM, and has found bugs/sent patches
Linux Kernel
RISE is working on kernelci, and so is Lance and Labs team
RISC-V
I’ll be at RISC-V Summit North America on October 22-23.
Banana Pi F3 Application open - link
Investigating more about the Milk-V Jupiter to understand readiness and availability
Memory options are 4gb/8gb/16gb
What’s cool?:
SiFive Introduces Intelligence XM Series for AI Workload Acceleration - link
RISC-V Powers 3 new computing devices (Terminal, Camera, Laptop) - link
Orange Pi announces a Raspberry Pi-like device using JH7110 - link
4 reasons RISC-V is a healthy competitor - link
TamaGo enables executing Go on Bare Metal on RISC-V SoCs - link
openSUSE Hackweek! - link