DevBaords Program Meeting July 18, 2024

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Greg Sterling

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Jul 17, 2024, 1:58:17 PM7/17/24
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All,

Our next meeting will be tomorrow, Jul6 18, 2024 at 14:00 UTC.  Local times:
  • 11 PM China
  • 8:30 PM India Standard Time
  • 5 PM Central European Summer Time
  • 11 AM Eastern U.S. Daylight Time
  • 8 AM Pacific U.S. Daylight Time
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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

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Jul 22, 2024, 9:52:15 AM7/22/24
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Welcome to the new folks, and thanks everybody for another great meeting!

Below are the meeting minutes.

Have a great day!

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

Meeting - July 18, 2024

Attendees: Greg, Carl, Lance, Marvin, Axel, Heinrich, Dave, Yu Bo, Isaac, Leon, Wei, Andreas, Olaf, Jeff


Board Updates:



Program Updates:

  • FreeBSD

    • Missing documentation for SoCs, e.g. GMAC on JH7110

    • Missing docs are roadblockers

  • Debian

    • Debian sid running on ROMA II(vendor kernel)

  • One Milk-v Pioneer has been added into debci. 


  • Fedora

    • Focus on Rawhide/F41[93%]  for upstreaming

Desktop support :XFCE/LXDE/LXQT/Cinnamon/Sway/Budgie/GNOME/Mate/Sugar/

TESTING::KDE/Deepin

Key Desktop App

  • firefox-126.0-9[DONE]

  • Libreoffice-24.2.3.2-3[DONE]

  • Thunderbird-115.11.1-1[DONE]

  • Chromium-125.0.6422.112-2[ONGOING]


  • F39: [99%] srpm[GA]

  • F40: [83.51%] srpm[in the mass rebuilds]

  • Fedora Image 

https://openkoji.iscas.ac.cn/pub/dist-repos/dl/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kQviQ2PNes39ClGp8NTXpVgfUQ-jhnGnUAQPsuKEcsI/edit?usp=sharing


  • SUSE


    • DC-ROMA booting via serial, framebuffer still not available.

  • oreboot

    • Custom SBI methods for debugging: hex print, memory dump, etc

This helps debugging assembly code where printing is hard

  • Found and fixed the alignment issue in Linux purgatory

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240709012606.7...@gmail.com/ (not good enough to some folks)

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20240716-lushly-knoll-f0661ff5aea3@spud/T/#mbacf790a494c2c176515c382ea004ebee338169b (v2, discussions…)

  • Firmware

    • Daniel’s notes on running FSBL/SPL + U-Boot from RAM on SpacemiT K1

https://gist.github.com/orangecms/8624aa82bab4931f787b5eee572f7668 

Helps others upstream patches, getting started with oreboot, etc 🙂

  • Reverse engineered 90% of the DRAM training binary, translation pending for both U-Boot and oreboot

  • RISC-V

    • 22 Banana Pi F3 2gb/4gb boards shipped

    • Preparing to get an email out for interest in 8gb/16gb Banana Pi boards

    • Continue to watch Milk-V Jupiter status, as an alternative to Banana Pi F3 boards

    • Presented to Tech Chairs about the DevBoards program

One question: Can we promote emulated RISC-V as an alternative to boards

  • DC-Roma Laptop… is the new revision board drop in replaceable with older laptop?

  • Testing in a Box: Streamlining Embedded Testing - link


What’s cool?:

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