DevBoards Program Meeting December 5, 2024

[Greg Sterling]

All,

Our next meeting will be tomorrow, December 5, 2024 at 12:00 UTC.  Local times:

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

Here's the Zoom link to copy to your calendar:

https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/97836688029?password=97d39d35-21a5-4638-8698-d0acab2968cc

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.

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

[Greg Sterling]

Thanks all for another great meeting!  Below are the meeting minutes.

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

Board Updates:

• SiFive

• SiFive to Open Source the SKL (SiFive Kernel Library) - link

Program Updates:

• Arch Linux

• Chromium 131 patched. Requires a new Clang feature which is missing in Clang 18. Shouldn’t be a problem for Clang 19.

• Tested Bianbu 2’s 6.6 kernel on K1/M1 chips. RVV related issues have been reported to SpacemiT, and a patch is now available for testing.

• Tested RuyiSDK team’s experimental 6.12 series kernel on K1 chips. Failed to initialize GPU but ethernet cards work as expected.

• https://github.com/ruyisdk-debian-riscv/k1-kernel

• RVV issues are gone and we can get some nice benchmark results:

• Gentoo (Dev Images)

• https://people.videolan.org/~negge/riscv101.pdf

• oreboot

• Daniel got a BPI-CanMV-K230D-Zero board

• First message: “boot failed with exit code 19”

• Trying to figure out how to load code via USB (not SD card)

• https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/113600385979547995 

• RISC-V

• Re-kicking off monthly devboard status questionnaires in December

• Ongoing projects form - (link)

• Finished projects form - (link)

What’s cool?:

• Imagination PowerVR Driver being extended to work with RISC-V - link

Miscellaneous notes:

1. FOSDEM RISC-V room https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/risc-v/ 

• And firmware etc https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/bmc/