Meeting Thursday, November 2, 2023

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Our next meeting will be Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 12:00 UTC.  Local times:

• 8 PM China
• 5:30 PM India Standard Time
• 2 PM Central European Time
• 8 AM Eastern U.S.
• 5 AM Pacific U.S.

Here's the meeting link: 
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MzV2cDA2YW5wM21ra2YwbDkyNXVoOWdjbzlfMjAyMzExMDJUMTIwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw&ctz=UTC 

The agenda will focus on standard topics:

1. Program updates from RISC-V
2. Board and Project updates
3. Review of Google Sites updates and drafts (Google Sites)
4. 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.
-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Director of Technical Programs, RISC-V International

[Jeff Scheel]

Thanks for another informative and helpful meeting.   

Per convention, the official updates are in the Meeting Document and I'm attaching a copy here.  Please question, correct, and extend the information in either the document of this email as you deem appropriate.

Attendees: Yu Bo, Axel, Hui-Zhi (SUSE), Victor Lu, Daniel, Isaac, Fuwei

Board Updates:

• none

Program Updates:

• Debian

• Debian ports for risc-v64 removed because risc-v is now a supported architecture. 

• Waiting for the testing suite which is needed for the next stable release.

• Fedora

• Fedora 38 Package end at 98%， The final Fedora 38 repo is done[https://openkoji.iscas.ac.cn/repos/f38-build-side-42-init-devel/31010/riscv64/] 

• Fedora 39 is under development 12400 packages have been built

• LiveCD image is done for Sophgo and TH1520, you can install Fedora with LiveCD SD card. Demo will be shown in Summit

• SUSE

• Two boxes for SUSE have been received in Nuremberg and are working ok.

• Android (AOSP)

• See the second item in the “What’s Cool” section.

• RISC-V

• No October status report requested

• Will solicit one for November and will be last of year.

• VisionFive V2

• 10 boards approved for Brazil

• 3 boards purchased and will be distributed.

• ROMA laptop

• Request to ship remaining 8 boards received.

• Reviewing projects

• Pioneer box

• Yocto has received their box and is doing bringup.  

• Awaiting status from Yocto and SUSE before picking next distro projects.

• Once we’ve distro project, then we accept individual projects

• New programs published to the website: link

• LicheePi4A, K230, and Huashan Pi expected in quantities of 10 ea.

What’s cool?:

• https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/11/sifive_riscv_cores/ - the new SiFive P870 core

• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/google-plans-risc-v-android-tools-in-2024-wants-developers-to-be-ready/ - Google announcing work in the AOSP ecosystem

• https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/display3.html - understanding the JH7110 display controller (part 3 of a series)

• https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/111290333196516146 - WCH MCUs easily programmable without extra hardware, Rust-enabled thanks to community

Miscellaneous notes:

• Meeting time reminder: our meetings are scheduled in UTC and thus the time of them should only move when/if your timezone is changing to/from Daylight Savings Time.  If you see moves that are not expected.  Please let Jeff know.

• No meeting on November 16 as Jeff will be traveling back from the Linux Plumbers Conference.  Next meeting (and likely the last of the year) will be December 7, 2023.

• Server Platform Task Group (TG) is just getting started.  Please join the group if you are a RISC-V member (tech-server-platform).  If you are not a member and you have interest, please consider a free Individual membership (RISC-V membership page).

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Director of Technical Programs, RISC-V International