Meeting February 16, 2023

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Our next meeting will be Thursday, February 16, 2023 at the following time:

• 3:00 PM UTC,  
• 4:00 PM Central Europe time,
• 8:30 PM India Standard Time,
• 11:00 PM China Standard Time
• 10:00 AM Eastern U.S. Standard Time,  
• 7:00 AM Pacific U.S. Standard Time.

Here's the meeting link (which can be copied to your calendar): 
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MnRoZWRxcW9vNjg2MXQxcHZlNnVla3Eza2lfMjAyMzAyMTZUMTUwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw&ctz=UTC 

The agenda will include:

• Program updates from RISC-V
• Board and Project updates
• Discussion on where to document use cases and roadmap
• What's cool?

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.

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager

[Jeff Scheel]

Another excellent discussion today.  Thanks to those who attended.  My minutes follow.  Comments, suggestions, questions, or corrections always appreciated either via email or in our Meeting document.

Attendees: Jeff, Wei Wu, Yu Bo, Darren, Wang, Daniel, Rafael, Akira

Board Updates:

• None

Program Updates:

• OpenEuler

•  Support for VisionFive V2 has been announced

• Debian

• More Unmatched was found. There are some buildd machines had been onlined on OSU/OSL.

• SUSE

• https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:VisionFive2

• This may be interesting: https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan 

• ALP (link) targeting RISC-V support

• Looking for Nezha boards nearby to Nuremberg

• Could borrow 1 or 2 from Michael Engel at Bamberg University 🙂

• oreboot

• Daniel purchased a VisionFive 2

• Got an Ox64 from Pine64 at FOSDEM 🙂

• Another video on the BL808

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OpMlzFDAdo&list=PLenOHeTI_A9MwA0HlNogiJVvU5RtsDSz9&index=2 

• Firmware

• Samuel Holland has a HOWTO for U-Boot + Linux on the BL808 (Ox64, M1S...):

https://gist.github.com/smaeul/6fc91324b66fcd001717263f61bf3d06 

• Android (AOSP)

• Patch acceptance underway for RISC-V

• System library bringup continues

• Cuddlefish emulator now launching kernel

• ART (Android Run-time) work underway with Alibaba THEAD

• RISC-V

• Polar Fire - no progress

• ROMA laptop - still holding

• VisionFive V2

• “Base” (Distro) people sent a form (simplified project form) for their volumes

• Reviewed community projects, approved 21 projects with 29 boards, notified approved projects

• Notified projects which were not accepted.

• Price back from Allnet.  Will seek final budget approval shortly.  Expect to order 60 - 80 boards.

• Product now in stock.

• ICE-V

• Met with Academic SIG and discussed program with them

• Emailed Ambassadors encouraging ideas

• Re-announced the program to tech-announce.  

1. Need to formalize the announcement process.  Just tech-announce?  A blog?  Tweets?  Other?

• Net-net: Project outlook in form has improved.

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What’s cool?:

• https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/10-hot-semiconductor-companies-to-watch-in-2023 - 10 semiconductor companies to watch, 2 are notes as RISC-V!

• https://greenwaves-technologies.com/gap9_processor/ - GAP9 processor for audio

• https://www.eejournal.com/article/nasa-recruits-microchip-sifive-and-risc-v-to-develop-12-core-processor-soc-for-autonomous-space-missions/ - NASA (JPL) to build 12-core RISC-V for Space

• https://shakti.org.in/ - Shakti processors from IITM are opensource

• https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sifive-intel-hifive-risc-v-development-board - HiFive Pro P550 (Horse Creek, Unmatched Follow-on) pre-orders

• https://twitter.com/SipeedIO/status/1626197035119673348 - Debian & Firefox on TH1520

• Announced to offer Android: https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a/ (see table)

• https://wiki.riscv.org/display/HOME/Operating+Systems - Number of OSes just doubled from 6 to 12 🥳

Miscellaneous topics:

1. Project information next steps - where should we document? 

• Contents:

• Use cases

• Upcoming board

• Reference existing documentation in other places

• https://linux-sunxi.org/Category:D1_Boards 

• https://doc-en.rvspace.org/ 

• https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/maix/m1s/m1s_dock.html 

• Possible locations:

• RISC-V website

• RISC-V wiki

• Google Groups

• Exchange

• Google Pages

• GitHub Pages

• Jeff will start a prototype and review it next time.  Most likely GitHub pages or Google Pages.

2. Most recent DevBoard Status Report (link)

• Still looks positive

3. RISC-V Technical Sessions Topic request: RISC-V Board Overview

• See Rafael if interested or post the topic at: https://forms.gle/ganoWYH3NDsVKBXw8

Next meeting will be an "East-friendly" meeting in 2 weeks.

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager