2025-03-20 Meeting Notes

Date

20 Mar 2025

Disclosures

Participants

Presentations

Notes & Action Items

Board Updates:

• Beagle - blog

• SiFive - press

• StarFive

• RIOS - news

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• Allwinner

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• Microchip - news

• SpacemiT - news

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• Microsemi

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• Milk-V - announcements

Program Updates:

• AlmaLinux

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• Arch Linux

  •  Apply workarounds for Node.js (GCC bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116057 )

  • Electron 34.x patched, still working on 35.x (Good news: it now compiles on SG2042!)

  • Linux kernel updated to 6.13.x

  • Chromium updated to 134.x

  • ROCm updated to 6.3.x

  • GCC patched to fix bootstrapping issues:

  • https://github.com/Rust-GCC/gccrs/issues/3424

  • https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119012

  • glibc cherry-picked patches:

  • RISC-V: Fix IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer by cyy

  • linux: prevent kernel choose addr by itself in mremap test by c10s

  • Rust updated to 1.85 with patches for musl.

  • Arch Linux upstream starts to accept some RISC-V patches (autoreconf) that x86_64 doesn’t explicitly need.

• Alpine Linux

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• FreeBSD

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• OpenEuler

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• Debian

  • Debian-Based Distro Comes to PINE64 RISC-V Tablet - link

  • Debian Trixie initial freeze at 03/15. This is one good signal to get the first support from Debian stable

• Gentoo (Dev Images) link

  •  AI model testing is showing a roughly 8-25% speed increase on DC-ROMA Laptop II

• Fedora

• SUSE

  • The Premier P550 board is booting Tumbleweed on mainline kernel with rebased patches, but is still missing some drivers.

• Canonical

• Android (AOSP)

  • KUBUDS ( https://kubuds.io ) has some plans to do some works and release some prototypes related to AOSP RISC-V around July-August.

• seL4

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• NixOS

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• R9

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• oreboot

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• Firmware

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• Managarm

  • Kernel now supports AIA

    Next step is enabling more boards, probably VisionFive2.

• Linux Kernel

  • Linux 6.15 to Support the Airoha NPU - link

  • Lichee Pi 4A support has been added to buildroot mainline

• RISC-V

  • Developer Board Status

    • Monthly Status Report

    • Final Status Report

  • Demos

    • Scheduled

    • Suggestions

    • Unscheduled

      • Code Think - Test In a Box

  • EU Summit

    • Greg will likely be attending and helping to manage the Dev Zone

Demo DC ROMA Laptop II with Gentoo Qwen:0.5b Model Demo

• Flash SD Card with Gentoo (Dev Images) link

  • default account is root

• Setup wpa_supplicant

  • Create /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file

    • ctrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant

      update_config=1

      network={

      ssid="???"

      psk=???

      mesh_fwding=1

      }

  • start wifi

    • wpa_supplicant -B -i wlP1p1s0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

    • wpa_cli reconnect

• Install cmake and go 1.24.0

  • emerge cmake

  • emerge go

• Download ollama repo

  • git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/mengzhuo/ollama.git

• Build ollama

  • go build .

• Run ollama

  • ./ollama serve > /dev/null 2>&1 &

  • ./ollama run qwen:0.5b --verbose

What’s cool?:

• Orange Pi RV2 using “Ky X1” - http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-RV2.html

  • https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6342-upstream-embedded-linux-on-risc-v-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

• New Framework Pre-order https://store.deepcomputing.io/products/dc-roma-ai-pc-risc-v-mainboard-ii-for-framework-laptop-13

• Infineon brings RISC-V to automotive industry - link

• RVAM16 Arm Translation Achieves 65% Native Performance - link

• RISC-V MCU certified for PSA L2 Security - link

Miscellaneous notes:

•  Chimera Linux drops RISC-V support - link

• Tasking Strengthens its Ecosystem with LDRA Acquisition and RISC-V Support - link

• Raspberry Pi Pico 2 RP2350 SoC goes on general sale - link

• Codasip to design EU-funded RISC-V processor - link