DevBoards Program Meeting October 17, 2024

[Greg Sterling]

Thanks everyone for another great meeting!

Below are the meeting minutes.

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

Attendees: Greg, Kanak, Han, Felix, Lance, Carl, Verachten, Andreas, Heinrich, Isaac, Yu Bo, Darren, Alex, Daniel, 

Board Updates:

• Beagle

• Few months ago BeagleV Ahead yocto support was upstreamed in meta-riscv.

Program Updates:

• Arch Linux

• JH7110 and D1 boards are now working with the repository kernel. Fixes to Arch’s inhouse initrd generation tool are needed, and also kernel patch. D1 finally works again with the upstream kernel after March.

• ROMA 2 demo with experimental closed-source IMG drivers at SFD event in USTC, Hefei.

• Tips for those having a Milk-V Mars evb like me: The EEPROM is empty and write protected, which prevents u-boot from detecting the RAM size correctly. Not sure why u-boot and the linux kernel have different default RAM set in the DT, but you’ll need to edit the copy in u-boot source code to workaround this.

• Debian

• Rust-* packages’ tests was really slow on riscv64 from Debci’s view. Some Debian people suspect that rust toolchian was not optimised on riscv64.

• (Examples from the Arch team: link and link)

• rust-prost on debci

• Oreboot

• TH1520 oreboot DRAM init is done and mostly working - some bug hunting left

• Writing to it currently hangs, but values read back from training etc. are looking good so far 😅

• RISC-V

• Greg will be at RISC-V Summit North America on October 22-23. 

• Summit NA Info Here

• Working on getting Demos together

• Mini ITX Rack Hardware - Doc Link

• Milk-V Cluster-08 Announced - link

• Has an integrated BMC board

• Banana Pi F3 Application open - link

• Shipped 4x boards out to developers so far

What’s cool?:

• QtRvSim v0.9.8 public announcement

• The new version includes Jiri Stefan's work on branch predictor - link

• Desktop packages - link

• The discussed Jakub Pelc's WebEvaluator is available - link

• Development Boards Wandering Project (part of RV2036)

• UEFI on th1520  - progress from Alibaba

• Metal case for BPi-F3: https://www.youyeetoo.com/products/banana-pi-bpi-f3-metal-case?VariantsId=12227 

• https://www.amazon.com/WayPonDEV-Black-Metal-Case-BPI-F3/dp/B0DFYS2JSX?th=1 

• https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807425488811.html (incl. acrylic option)

• https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807423878151.html

• https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807425779057.html (incl. acrylic variant)

• Intel A770 on unmatched from Revy

• Andreas: Confirmed that A750 is working with xe.force_probe=56a1 on 6.10/6.11

Miscellaneous notes:

Layoffs at SOPHGO a few months ago, which have adversely affected the release date for the SG2380 and thus the Milk-V Oasis: https://community.milkv.io/t/introducing-the-milk-v-oasis-with-sg2380-a-revolutionary-risc-v-desktop-experience/780/144