DevBoards Program Meeting September 5, 2024

[Greg Sterling]

All,

Our next meeting will be tomorrow, September 5, 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/MzV2cDA2YW5wM21ra2YwbDkyNXVoOWdjbzlfMjAyNDA5MDVUMTIwMDAwWiB0ZWNoLm1lZXRpbmdzQHJpc2N2Lm9yZw

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]

Hey everyone, and thanks for another productive meeting.

Below are the meeting minutes:

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

Attendees: Greg, Bruno, Kanak, Yu Bo, Olaf, Wei Fu, Jeff, Alejandro, Leon, Jingwiw

Program Updates:

• Debian
  

• No update.

• Fedora

• https://openkoji.iscas.ac.cn/pub/stats/

• https://images.fedoravforce.com/

• Key Desktop App

• Firefox-128.0-4

• Libreoffice-24.2.4.2-2

• Thunderbird-115.11.1-1

• Chromium-126.0.6478.182-2

• Oreboot
  

• Initial work on porting TH1520 started.

• Initial Program counter printed (commits here).

• DDR init is still work in progress (commits here).

• Firmware

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• RISC-V

• Shipped 85 Banana Pi boards in August

• Got boards to Alma Linux group to help with RISC-V build/test

• Opened Banana Pi F3 to general applications - link

• Linux Kernel

• OSU Kernel CI work to help add Lab hardware, to be able to offer a test environment for different parts of the Kernel

• Andrea will be at Linux Plumbers, and around the RISC-V mini conference track if anyone is interested to talk with him

What’s cool?:

• Embeetle IDE blog post

• Linux running on Raspberry Pi RP2350 Hazard3 RISC-V Cores

• DC-ROMA Pad II Tablet pre-orders opened

• Armbian 24.8 Moves to Linux 6.10, Supports newer RISC-V Boards

• Milk-V RuyiBook (laptop based on XiangShan Nanhu)

• Milk-V Megrez (ESWIN EIC7700X based board with SiFive P550 cores)

• XiangShan presentation at Hotchips 2024

• Stream Computing open sourced a RVV implementation on top of BOOM (slide)

• TH1520 baremetal hello world

Box64 and RISC-V in 2024 (Witcher 3 on Milk-V Pioneer)