DevBoards Program Meeting February 15, 2024

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Our next meeting will be tomorrow, Thursday, February 15, 2024 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
• 10:00 AM Eastern U.S. Standard Time,  
• 7:00 AM Pacific U.S. Standard Time.

Here's the meeting link (which can be copied to your calendar):
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MnRoZWRxcW9vNjg2MXQxcHZlNnVla3Eza2lfMjAyNDAyMTVUMTUwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw&ctz=UTC 

The agenda will be:

• Board and Project updates
• Program updates from RISC-V
• Board purchase discussion for 1H
• 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)

Director of Technical Programs, RISC-V International

[Jeff Scheel]

All,

Per convention, the official updates are in the Meeting Document and I'm attaching a copy here.  Please question, correct, and extend the information in either the document of this email as you deem appropriate.

Attendees: Jeff, Greg, Daniel, Carl, Han Gao, Axel, Heinrich, Lance, Felix, Yu Bo, Wei Fu, Paul Sherman, Andreas

Board Updates:

• Milk-V: 

  • Duo 256M [SG2002]: http://milkv.io/duo
     

The SG200x is fully compatible with the ARDUINO IDE tools. After the Lunar New Year, it will be made available to developers as soon as possible.

RT-Thread(RTOS) will support  SG200x soon.

• Sipeed 

  • SG2002:  https://sipeed.com/licheerv-nano

• Sophgo:

https://www.sophgo.com/product/introduce/huashan.html

https://www.sophgo.com/product/introduce/cv181xH.html

Program Updates:

• ArchLinux

  • Finalizing Arch Ports RFC draft. Link to preview version

  • riscv64 port will be the first proposal after the Ports structure established.

  • Arch Linux RISC-V running on Kendryte K230

  • TH1520 kernel update to 6.7 with pinctrl support and other improvements

  • Support for Electron 28 added

  • Go updated to 1.22 but there are some issues ([1] and [2])

  • Identified a new issue regarding K230’s rvv cannot access MMIO addresses.

• https://github.com/T-head-Semi/glibc/commit/97ef2ac29f1f4caf99d5f53baa9c0c0ce470bdc0 

• Debian

  •  Added one licheepi4A to debci

• Fedora

  • Building Fedora rawhide/40

  • Fedora 39 distrepo 有 98.38% srpm with LiveCD

    • Only 369 srpm left

    • ROS2 Image on TH1520

    • ROS Image is on the way 

    • CasaOS Image (NAS)

      • NextCloud App

  • Fedora 40/rawhide koji repo 有 87.65% srpm

• Canonical

  • Moving to kernel 6.8

    • VF2 in pretty good shape except for PCIe; 20 patches in a set pending

    • TH1520 coming along nicely

    • LicheePi4A has limited uboot support

• oreboot

  •  We have run Zephyr on the JH7110 (Milk-V Mars + VisionFive 2) on hart0 🙂

    • Students have started the project and also run it directly via vf2-loader

• Firmware

  • BRS TG is looking for feedback on spec: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-brs (file issues on GitHub); original call: https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-prs/message/776 

• RISC-V

  • Greg is reviewing and dispositioning the projects for the 3 open programs (LicheePi 4A, HuashanPi, Kendryte K230).  

    • Expect to announce results to projects next week.

  • Need to decide which board we should buy for 1H:

    • Candidates

      • VisionFive V2 (link)

      • LicheePi 4A (link)

      • Kendryte K230 (link)

      • Other?

        1. BananaPi F3?

        2. Milk-V Oasis?

    • Discussion

      • What happens with Vector support in Distros with future boards?  Current distros building for RVA20

What’s cool?:

• https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/risc-v-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters - An good overview of our work and what it means in the geopolitical context.

• https://liliputing.com/banana-pi-bpi-f3-is-a-single-board-pc-with-an-8-core-risc-v-processor-dual-ethernet-and-pcie-2-1/ - Banana Pi building a RISC-V-based boards

• Daniel discovered ReGIS and put a demo on a RISC-V MCU outputting ReGIS commands, including rendering the RISC-V logo; can be rendered via xterm
  https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/111936145170848294 

• RISC-V Munich meetup was a true blast; for slides, see links in comments:

• https://www.meetup.com/Munich-RISC-V-Meetup-Group/events/297896097/comments/530922748/ 

Our next meeting will be in 3 weeks on March 7.  Thanks for you contributions last week.

-Jeff

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Jeff Scheel (he/him/his)

Director of Technical Programs, RISC-V International