[RISC-V][Devboards Program] March 5th, Devboards Program, 2025 - East-friendly

[Greg Sterling]

Our next meeting will be tomorrow.  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]

Thanks everybody for another great meeting!

Greg Sterling (RISC-V International)

Board Updates (Beagle, SiFive, StarFive, RIOS, Allwinner, Microchip, SpacemIT, Milk-V)

·       SpacemiT K3

o   on display at FOSDEM

o   Carl is looking for a pinout of the SpacemiT K3 boards if anybody has access to the information

o   K3 Datasheet https://github.com/spacemit-com/docs-chip/blob/main/en/key_stone/k3/k3_docs/k3_ds.md

§  https://www.spacemit.com/community/document/info?lang=en&nodepath=hardware/key_stone/k3/k3_docs/k3_ds.md

o   https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemit_riscv/comments/1rg1c41/k3_access_invitation/?share_id=1bum_inS7YTA3pvZJBXDu&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=10

Program Updates:

·       Operating Systems

o   BSD - FreeBSD, NetBSD

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

§  Arch Linux

§  RevyOS Kernel provided at 6.19.3

§  GHC 9.6 with NCG, thanks to eweOS

§  ROCm 7.2.0, binutils 2.46 & glibc 2.43, Rust 1.93, and many other package updates

§  Hardware support from RevyOS Kernel

§  SG2042 (single-socket)

§  SG2044 EVB

§  TH1520 (LPi4A)

§  DP1000 EVB

§  K1 (BPiF3, OPiRV2, no TF card)

§  https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-and-ubuntu-risc-v-a-2025-retro-and-looking-forward-to-2026

§  https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-DC8200-Coreboot-FB

§  FedoraV Force released Fedora 43 images for SpacemiT K3

§  https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc1-Released

§  patches for spacemit k3 and RVA23 in general

§  https://t2linux.com/#news-2026-03-04

o   Other - seL4, Android AOSP, Managarm

·       RISC-V International

o   Developer Board Status: Monthly Status Report, Final Status Report

o   Dev Boards Applications

§  On hold as we plan for 2026

What’s cool?:

·       https://github.com/MatthewHRockwell/ATOMiK

·       https://community.riscv.org/events/details/risc-v-international-risc-v-academy-presents-community-challenge-with-hades-v/

·       THEJAS32 RISC-V Chip used to enable ev-battery intelligence - link

·       https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/2/ http://youtube.com/watch?v=uwq_g719CPY&feature=youtu.be

·       https://felix86.com/felix86-26-03/ AVX/AVX2, BMI1, F16CV, & Flatpaks support added

·       https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless/pull/2001

o   Enables running of many base images in Kubernetes on riscv64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WERPNNyzqqs

·       https://github.com/suryakantamangaraj/awesome-riscv-resources

o   From: https://github.com/xmpf/awesome-risc-v

·       https://www.edn.com/ai-is-stress-testing-processor-architectures-and-risc-v-fits-the-moment/

·       https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1rd5tg4/rvboy_custom_handheld_console_and_tile_engine_for/

·       https://www.opencompute.org/w/index.php?title=OCP_AI_HW_SW_Design_Collaboration

Miscellaneous notes:

·       https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/X8TLY9-mistakes-in-riscv/

·       https://thenewstack.io/the-ai-shift-why-risc-v-is-poised-to-challenge-arm-and-x86/

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 2026-03-10 08:55:46, Greg Sterling wrote:
> § GHC 9.6 with NCG, thanks to eweOS

If any Haskell users are interested in this, I bootstrapped GHC on
musl all the way up to ghc-9.12.1:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Mjo/GHC_binary_packages


> § SG2042 (single-socket)

This should be fully upstream in linux-7.0. For the Pioneer **box**
there is still one hack that isn't upstream, but I'm not sure how
general it is (if it affects non-radeon GPUs or what):

https://dev.gentoo.org/~mjo/distfiles/no-ttm-cached-mapping-20260220.patch