DevBoards Program Meeting June 6, 2024

[Greg Sterling]

All,

Our next meeting will be tomorrow, June 6, 2024 at 12:00 UTC.  Local times:

• 8 PM China
• 5:30 PM India Standard Time
• 2 PM Central European Summer Time
• 8 AM Eastern U.S. Daylight Time
• 5 AM Pacific U.S. Daylight Time

Here's the meeting link to copy to your calendar:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/eventedit/copy/MzV2cDA2YW5wM21ra2YwbDkyNXVoOWdjbzlfMjAyNDA2MDZUMTIwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw

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]

Welcome to our new and newer members today.  I hope you'll come back and join us again in the future.

As we have discussed, we will continue to include minutes and chat history from the meeting in our shared Meeting Document. 

Thanks everyone, and see you at the next meeting!

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

Attendees: Greg, Kanak, Hui-Zhi, Arthur, Felix, Daniel, Emil, Leon, Victor, Wei Fu, Carl, Peter, Axel, Isaac

Board Updates:

• Milk-V:

• Jupiter []

• New product, from Chinese chip vendor

• First batch is ready, Wei Fu will get it in the coming weeks and provide more information when ready

Program Updates:

• Arch Linux

• 

• Get Mellanox ConnectX-2 up and running on SG2042
  Driver hack upstreamed to https://github.com/sophgo/linux-riscv/commit/44e5a32746915f631fb2fc57bf41ccfa820cdce5
  wondering: Is there a universal mechanism to limit max number of MSI-X?

• Using handwritten way to limit the number of MSI-X

• Modified the driver to get it to work, but needs help to get the changes upstreamed

• Suggestion: ask at https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/ 

• Get Arch Linux RISC-V up and running on Banana Pi BPI-F3
  Also tried some simple benchmarks with OpenSSL’s newly upstreamed vector implementation of ChaCha20 at https://x.com/felixonmars/status/1796920035870658935

• Fedora
  

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

• Desktop support :XFCE/LXDE/LXQT/Cinnamon/Sway/Budgie

• ONGOING:GNOME/Mate/Sugar/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 for Milk-V Pioneer (edk2+grub)

• Spacemit K1 Image for new dev boards  is on the way

• ROMA laptop Server Image is done, working on  Desktop support

• https://groups.google.com/a/riscv.org/g/devboard-community/c/n0I7pf4CbOA

• SUSE

• We give a low priority to SG2042 board since Sophgo don’t have resources on it, also they have some hardware bugs, the patches which can fix these will never be accepted by upstream.

• NixOS

• Support for upstream kernel https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/pull/964 with discussion regarding boot flows

• oreboot

• Fixes for SBI timer now upstream, which makes Linux boot properly on JH7110

• JH7110 implementation still WIP, to follow soonish

• No hart state management (HSM) yet

• Upstream oreboot now boots recent kernel on Allwinner D1

• Daniel got a BPI-F3 (SpacemiT K1)

• RISC-V

• Banana Pi F-3 Feedback (2gb/4gb)

• Huashan Pi Status

What’s cool?:

•  Arch Linux Support of RISC-V

• Codasip Launches Power Efficient Core

• Canonical Supports Milk-V Mars

Ephemeral Meeting Chat:

08:21:59 From Daniel Maslowski (IAOTAI) to Everyone:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/

08:24:44 From kanak shilledar (individual) to Everyone:

where can I find the current status of all the riscv soc what all peripherals are upstreamed and what is working? I came across this https://github.com/esmil/linux?tab=readme-ov-file#status

from Emil but it only has the status for JH7100 not for other SoCs

08:26:14 From Carl Perry (Indivdual) to Everyone:

Replying to "where can I find the..."

Sadly many of the vendors do not have public status boards for their upstream status. The rvspace wiki has that info for JH7110, but I am unaware of any others currently

08:27:16 From Carl Perry (Indivdual) to Everyone:

Replying to "where can I find the..."

wiki.rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_plan is the official StarFive tracking page for the JH7110

08:28:00 From Daniel Maslowski (IAOTAI) to Everyone:

yea we don't have a central tracker - would be nice if RVI had a dedicated page for that on the website, let's bring that up here later

08:28:52 From Emil Renner Berthing (Canonical) to Everyone:

There is also a google spreadsheet for the TH1520, but yeah, the information is very spread out according to the SoC

08:30:31 From kanak shilledar (individual) to Everyone:

Replying to "There is also a goog..."

can you please share the link for that spreadsheet

08:31:54 From Daniel Maslowski (IAOTAI) to Everyone:

For Allwinner, the community is doing the upstream work; tracker: https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix

08:41:21 From Emil Renner Berthing (Canonical) to Everyone:

Replying to "There is also a go..."

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WzTS8zJ9ZbmBz3CO-ApQPiAtg7gl_wJT2prRZQXDlqQ

08:42:25 From Felix Yan (Arch) to Everyone:

https://github.com/revyos/revyos/issues/17