Meeting June 15, 2023

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Our next meeting will be this Thursday, June 15, 2023 at the following time:

• 3:00 PM UTC,  
• 4:00 PM Central Europe time,
• 8:30 PM India Standard Time,
• 11:00 PM China Standard Time
• 11:00 AM Eastern U.S. Daylight Savings Time,  
• 8:00 AM Pacific U.S. Daylight Savings Time.

Here's the meeting link (which can be copied to your calendar):
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MnRoZWRxcW9vNjg2MXQxcHZlNnVla3Eza2lfMjAyMzA2MTVUMTUwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw&ctz=UTC

The agenda will not include any special topics and will be simply:

• Program updates from RISC-V
• Board and Project updates
• What's cool?
  

As always, any topics, updates, or information can be added to our agenda document, Dev Board Group Minutes or raised at the beginning of the meeting.

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager

[Jeff Scheel]

Thanks for another good gathering of the DevBoards Program Management meeting.

Here are my updates to the Meeting Document and I'm attaching a copy here.  Please don't hesitate to question, correct, extend the information in either the document of this email.

Reminder: due to the layout of the month, the next meeting falls in 3 weeks on July 6.

Attendees: Daniel Maslowski, Jeff, Yu Bo, Chen Wang, Leon Nunes (new), Rafael, Thea, Darren, Axel, fuwei, Xavier Esteve (new)

Board Updates:

• Milk-V

• Mars: JH7110

• Jeff continues to evaluate the role of this board to the program.

Program Updates:

• Debian

• Bookworm has been released.

• Trixie will support riscv64. (Yay!!!)

• riscv64 will be added into the archive soon.

• Fedora

• Fedora 38 Package number 19320/23118 [83.6%] 

• zsbl→edk2→GRUB→Fedora

• RV32 bootstrap going well, building rpms for minimal rootfs

• Fedora 38 function testing:

• Desktop support: 

• XFCE[pass]

• LXDE[pass]

• LXQT[pass]

• GNOME[pass]

• Budgie[pass]

• Cinnamon[pass]

• Mate[pass]

• Sugar[pass]

• Sway[pass]

• KDE[pass]

• deepin[Building]

• Podman[pass]

• Ceph [pass]

• K8s [pass]

• SUSE

• Not targeting 32-bit (RV32)

• Milk-V requests coming

• Android (AOSP)

• Kernel: Update the kernel module loader to handle R_RISCV_32_PCREL which LLVM is generating for some modules now.

• Bionic: implement rvv version mem* and str* for riscv64 in bionic (which is contributed by sifive).

• ART development moving forward: assembler changes continuing till part6 (Add macro instructions for loads and stores); add JNI macro assembler skeleton for riscv64; and some other bug fixing.

• binary_translation & native_bridge_support still in rapid involvement, many pull-requests merged since last meeting.

• oreboot

• Factored out into a library, to be applied to VF2

• Someone from Intel has run our code on their VF2 successfully

• Firmware

• GSoC coreboot project progressing, reviving support for RISC-V on QEMU

• RISC-V

• Shakti processor (Prasanna)

• Slides:  (pdf link)

• See notes from last meeting

• Program status

• Overall 1 pager: (link)

• May status (link)

• VisionFive V2

• 49 boards shipped, one issue remains

• 2 boards requested shipment from inventory

• “Second call” for projects posted and announced (tech-announce)

• Pioneer Box

• Milk-V has offered 50 boxes to RISC-V

• First proposal using Partner form

• Forms created (projects and distros)

• Project posted and announced with deadline of July 31

• Distros emailed with deadline of June 30

• Currently 8 projects and 2 distros

• Work remains to finalize details of box availability, shipping, etc.

• 10 Unmatched boards have also been offered by SiFive

• Working details directly with SiFive

• VisionFive V2 for Automotive

• Jeff has reached out to the Automotive SIG and begun discussions about the CAN bus on VisionFive V2

• A project has been received/proposed about CAN bus for VisionFive V2 from an RISC-V member.  Jeff will FWUP.

What’s cool?:

• https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/27/WS647141f4a310b6054fad5587.html - Chinese Academy of Sciences high performance RISC-V chip (Xiangshan) and operating system based on openEuler (Aolai)

• https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tenstorrent-partners-with-lg-to-build-ai-and-risc-v-chiplets-for-smart-tvs-of-the-future-301836779.html - Tenstorrent partnering with LG on SmartTVs 

• https://blog-imaginationtech-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/blog.imaginationtech.com/the-gpu-of-choice-for-risc-v?hs_amp=true - Imagination GPU work for RISC-V

• https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-vector-unit--semidynamics - Semidynamics has released a RISC-V Vector Unit

• https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/the-linux-foundation-europe-launches-rise-the-risc-v-software-ecosystem-project/ - RISE Foundation focuses on RISC-V Software Ecosystem

• https://www.eetimes.com/axelera-demos-early-silicon-raises-50-million/ - Axelera (European startup) raises $50M USD for chips for accelerators

• https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/ESP32-C3%20Wireless%20Adventure.pdf - New ESP32-C3 Book. 400 pages. 

• https://riscv-summit-china.com/submit-my-talk.html - China Summit call for papers (English)

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager