2025-03-20 Meeting Notes

Date

Mar 20, 2025

Disclosures

Participants

Name	Affiliation

Name	Affiliation

Presentations

	Title	Presenter	File

	Title	Presenter	File
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Notes & Action Items

Board Updates:

Beagle - blog
SiFive - press
StarFive
RIOS - news
Allwinner
Microchip - news
SpacemiT - news
Microsemi
Milk-V - announcements

Program Updates:

AlmaLinux
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:
- Bootstrap comparison failure: gcc/rust/rust-lex.o differs · Issue #3424 · Rust-GCC/gccrs
- 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
FreeBSD
OpenEuler
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
NixOS
R9
oreboot
Firmware
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
    - Pi Hole working on Licheepi 4a
  - 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
RISC-V SoC with GPU from Eswin
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

Ephemeral Chat:

11:02:07 From Greg Sterling (RISC-V International) to Everyone:
2025-03-20 Meeting Notes

11:04:17 From Andreas Färber (SUSE) to Everyone:
It might require to login before requesting access?

11:09:22 From Felix Yan to Everyone:
For Arch updates:

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>

11:09:43 From Felix Yan to Everyone:
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.

11:10:49 From Andreas Färber (SUSE) to Everyone:
Replying to "It might require to login before requesting access...":
fwiw after logging in I still see the Sign In icon in top right corner, and it says in bottom left corner "You're viewing this with anonymous access, so some content might be blocked."

11:11:22 From Felix Yan to Everyone:
fwiw after logging in I still see the Sign In icon in top right corner, and it says in bottom left corner "You're viewing this with anonymous access, so some content might be blocked."
yeah exactly the same for me :(

11:13:43 From Bo YU to Everyone:
Debian: Debian Trixie initial freeze at 03/15. This is one good signal to get the first support from Debian stable

11:14:02 From Daniel Maslowski to Everyone:
FOSSASIA are friends of mine, they are cool :)

COSCUP would also be cool to attend btw

11:14:22 From Daniel Maslowski to Everyone:
https://coscup.org/2025/

11:17:54 From Alexander van der Grinten to Everyone:
Managarm: Kernel now supports AIA
Next step is enabling more boards, probably VisionFive2.
Daniel Maslowski:🥳

11:18:19 From Daniel Maslowski to Everyone:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6342-upstream-embedded-linux-on-risc-v-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

on the SpacemiT K1

11:21:06 From Marvin Friedrich (SUSE) to Everyone:
For SUSE: The Premier P550 board is booting Tumbleweed on mainline kernel with rebased patches, but is still missing some drivers.

11:21:18 From Wei Wu (Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences) to Everyone:
For the Android: FYI the KUBUDS ( https://kubuds.io ) has some plans to do some works and release some prototypes related to AOSP RISC-V around July-August.

11:21:42 From Daniel Maslowski to Everyone:
Have we featured the EIC7702X SoC yet btw?
It's quite decent, RISC-V SoC with GPU from Eswin

11:22:59 From Kanak Shilledar (individual) to Everyone:
adding onto demos, I tried running pi hole on licheepi 4a, and it works out of the box without any tweaks

11:29:35 From Verachten Bruno (Jenkins.) to Everyone:
I have to drop off, I have a work meeting starting.
Thanks for the good work, folks!👍

11:40:00 From Daniel Maslowski to Everyone:
Blog: Zen and the Art of Microcode Hacking

so just write your custom ucode for AMD now to support RISC-V :D

11:40:50 From Wei Wu (Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences) to Everyone:
Replying to "https://bughunters.google.com/blog/542484235747328...":
I'm recruiting interns to do this mission impossible 🙂
Daniel Maslowski:🥳

11:41:33 From Wei Wu (Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences) to Everyone:
Replying to "https://bughunters.google.com/blog/542484235747328...":
also may put in to the challenge RVSPOC (http://rvspoc.org )

11:42:17 From Daniel Maslowski to Everyone:
Replying to "https://bughunters.google.com/blog/542484235747328...":
Ah that is so cool! :))
I would love to share that once you have it on the website. Open Source Firmware folks will love it!
Wei Wu (Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences):😎