[RISC-V][Devboards Program] August 21, 2025 - West-friendly

[Greg Sterling]

All,

Apologies for the late reminder.  Our next meeting will be today, August 21, 2025.  Local times can be found by logging into LFX at https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/ or going to the Tech Meetings calendar at https://tech.riscv.org/calendar/.

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.  Please note we have migrated to Confluence for meeting minutes.  Please reach out if you have any issues viewing the meeting minutes.

Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

[Greg Sterling]

Hi Everyone, thanks for another great meeting.  Below are the minutes from the meeting.

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

Board Updates:

·       Beagle, SiFive, StarFive, RIOS, Allwinner, Microchip, Microsemi, SpacemIT, Milk-V

·       RVA23 Watchlist - Zhihe A210, SpacemiT K3

·       UltraRISC - DP1000 has rebranded from “RVA23 Without Vector” to RVA22

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Program Updates:

·       oreboot

·       U-Boot

o   Banana Pi RV2 U-Boot source released - link

·       Firmware

·       Operating System

o   BSD - FreeBSD, NetBSD

§  NetBSD 11.0 - new riscv port primarily targeting StarFive JH71XX-based devices

o   Linux - AlmaLinux, Arch Linux, Alpine Linux, Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Canonical

§  Debian 13 "Trixie" released with Linux 6.12, official 64-bit RISC-V support

§  Bianbu OS 3.0 supports Zink - link, YouTube demo

o   Kernel

o   Android - AOSP

o   OpenEuler, seL4, NixOS, R9, Managarm

·       Images

o   Development - Gentoo, Fedoravforce.org (Mirror US)

o   [Unofficial] Debian 13 (Trixie) Bootable Image for Orange Pi RV2

·       Applications

·       Virtualization

·       RISC-V

o   NA Summit - registration, schedule

§  DevZone Demo Suggestions

o   Developer Board Status

§  Monthly Status Report

§  Final Status Report

o   Dev Boards

§  Anything interesting/new we should be aware of?

§  Looking into another order for

§  Banana Pi F3

Orange Pi RV2

§  Any experience with ESWIN EBC77 - link

What’s cool?:

·       Pine64 is moving from Arm to RISC-V - link

·       Vulkan is working with BredOS on Orange Pi RV2 - YouTube