Board Updates:
· Beagle, SiFive, StarFive, RIOS, Allwinner, Microchip, SpacemIT, Milk-V
· https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2025-10-29-beaglev-fire-meets-smarthls-unlock-fpga-acceleration
· https://www.sifive.com/press/upbeat-technology-sifive-introduce-low-power-risc-v-mcu-with-ai
· Allwinner's 4K AI Image Chip [V881 Series]
· Three Allwinner T153 core boards launched (Hybrid Arm/RISC-V systems)
Program Updates:
· oreboot
· U-Boot
· Firmware
· Operating Systems
§ The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 15.0 released
o Linux - AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, Alpine Linux, Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Canonical, OpenEuler, NixOS
o Other - seL4, Android AOSP, Managarm
· Images
o Development - Gentoo, FedoraVForce (Mirror US)
o Docker
§ [Bruno]https://github.com/gounthar/docker-for-riscv64/releases/tag/cli-v28.5.1-riscv64
§ 28.5.2 Release should be later today
· Compilers
· CI/CD
· RISC-V International
o Developer Board Status: Monthly Status Report, Final Status Report
o RISC-V Mentorship Program for Spring 2026 open for Applicationshttps://mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/#projects_accepting
What’s cool?:
· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kdhMMQ6eZU
· https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/bolt_graphics_zeus_gpu/
o Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEEamxJ60aI&t=8180s
· Course: The RISC-V Processor Architecture, RV32 ISA, Assembly Language, Verilog FPGAhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbtzT1TYeoMiKup6aoQc3V_d7OvOKc3P5
· https://dramforever.github.io/easyriscv/
Miscellaneous notes:
· Talk “Enabling Intelligent Media Playback on RISC-V - Running VLC With Whisper STT and Qwen T2T on a 40-TOPS RISC-V Laptops” at https://www.videolan.org/videolan/events/vdd25/
o Unsure if there will be a video
· Playlist of all RISC-V Summit 2025 Recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL85jopFZCnbNUnI0l_jg5C8UKNiuAwdVq
· https://riscv.org/blog/risc-v-jtc1-pas-submitter/
· UBIOS
o https://www.technetbooks.com/2025/10/china-finalizes-ubios-firmware.html