Meeting November 17, 2022

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Our next meeting will be Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 10:00 Eastern U.S. Standard Time, 7:00 AM Pacific U.S. Standard Time.

Here's the link to the calendar entry:

https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MnRoZWRxcW9vNjg2MXQxcHZlNnVla3Eza2lfMjAyMjExMTdUMTUwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

Tomorrow, I will post an agenda.

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Our next meeting will be Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 15:00 UTC, 10:00 Eastern U.S. Standard Time, 7:00 AM Pacific U.S. Standard Time.

Here's the link to the calendar entry:

https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MnRoZWRxcW9vNjg2MXQxcHZlNnVla3Eza2lfMjAyMjExMTdUMTUwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

General agenda

• An overview of the RISC-V Exchange (Jeff, Thea)
• Program updates (Jeff)
• What's cool? (All)
• Continuous recruiting and improvement discussion (All)

If you have additional agenda items, feel free to raise them to the list or add them to the Dev Board Group Minutes document.

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager

[Jeff Scheel]

Thanks to all who attended yesterday's meeting.  I am encouraged by the types of discussions we are having and appreciate your willingness to attend and improve the program.  Here are my minutes:

Attendees: Yu Bo, Rafael, Daniel (oreboot, LinuxBoot, PSI, Fiedka and other projects, individual), Matt (Rivos), Thea, Axel Heider (seL4)

Board Updates:

• None

Program Updates:

• Debian

•  Debian riscv64 portbox available

• oreboot

•  We are reducing the JH7100 boot flow to one single stage before payload

1. Our default payload is LinuxBoot ( https://linuxboot.org )

2. We offer non-SBI booting to support holistic operating systems, research initiatives and other bare metal apps

• Just did a case study on the feasibility of translating the DRAM init C code to Rust 🦀

1. There are roughly 500 writes of magic values to magic registers 🧚

2. It will be just a matter of some time and testing 🥳

• Firmware

• Daniel is looking into SBoM implementations for inclusion in firmware, evaluating

1. SwID, specifically uswid (rather simple, also being evaluated in coreboot and LVFS)

2. CycloneDX (an OWASP project, very mature); just joined their Slack and discussions on GitHub

3. Gave a talk last Sunday touching the issue https://metaspora.org/fiedka-firmware-analysis-and-modding.pdf and before at OSFC https://metaspora.org/firmware-sbom-annotations-audits.pdf 

• RISC-V (Jeff)

• Overview of RISC-V Exchange

1. Add items at the the “Submit an items” yellow button: link

• RISC-V Summit gathering during Members Day

1. Will post details when confirmed

• October project status collected

• Program Summary slides created and shared with RISC-V execs

• Project review (Developer Boards Details webpage)

• ICE-V Program started (website)

1. Purchased 20 boards

2. Form solicitation ends Nov. 15 (1 submission so far)

3. Likely need to partner with Academic Partners to fill projects

What’s cool?:

•  New SiFive processors for Wearables and Consumer Products (P670 & P470): https://www.sifive.com/press/sifives-new-high-performance-processors-offer-a-significant 

• RISC-V makes Maker Shed cover: https://www.makershed.com/products/make-magazine-volume-83-print 

• RISC-V Hackathon in India (VEGA processor): https://twitter.com/VegaProcessor/status/1589511270654705664 

• Sipeed MAIX M1s (AIoT, BL808, C906 + 2 RV32 cores) and M0sense (BL702)  IGG:  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sipeed-maix-new-experience-to-risc-v-aiot-tinyml 

• Chromite RISC-V core generator: https://chromite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html 

• LibreOffice Enables RISC-V 64-bit Support: https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-RISC-V-64-bit-Build

• 2022 RT-Thread Developer Conference:  https://twitter.com/rt_thread/status/1592081855054217217

• Alibaba C908 Announce (Vector 1.0, Bitmanip 1.0, CMO, ePMP, Svinval, Sv48): https://riscv.org/blog/2022/11/xuantie-c908-high-performance-risc-v-processor-catered-to-aiot-industry-chang-liu-alibaba-cloud/ 

• Pine64 update: https://www.pine64.org/2022/11/15/november-update-tuned-in/ 

• RISC v. RISC-V v. ARM: https://www.makeuseof.com/risc-vs-arm-what-is-the-difference/ 

Miscellaneous notes:

1. Thea’s proposed we build our own dev board…interesting idea for January.

2. December meetings (both) will be canceled due to conflicts (personal and Summit)

Please keep your eyes open for meeting cancellations in December AND for announcements for details about where we can meet face-to-face at Summit on Members Day (Monday, December 12).

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Linux Foundation, RISC-V Technical Program Manager