There will be a RISC-V microconference at LPC, which takes place September
9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal. "The open nature of the RISC-V
ecosystem has allowed contributions from both academia and industry
leading to an unprecedented number of new hardware design proposals in a
very short time span. Linux support is the key to enabling these new
hardware options. Since last year's Plumbers, many kernel features were
added to RISC-V. To name a few, we now have out-of-box 32-bit and eBPF
support, some key issues with Linux boot process have been addressed, and
hypervisor support is on its way.
"
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| Jake Edge <jake-AT-lwn.net> |
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| [Lpc-announce] RISC-V microconference accepted for the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference |
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| Fri, 10 May 2019 13:48:49 -0600 |
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The open nature[1] of the RISC-V ecosystem[2] has allowed contributions
from both academia and industry leading to an unprecedented number of
new hardware design proposals in a very short time span. Linux support
is the key to enabling these new hardware options[3]. Since last
year's Plumbers, many kernel features were added to RISC-V. To name a
few, we now have out-of-box 32-bit and eBPF support, some key issues
with Linux boot process have been addressed, and hypervisor support is
on its way.
Last year's RISC-V microconference was such a success[4] that we would
like to repeat that again this year by focusing on finding solutions
and discussing ideas that require kernel changes.
Topics for this year microconference are expected to cover:
- RISC-V Platform Specification Progress, including some extensions
such as power management
- Fixing the Linux boot process in RISC-V (RISC-V now has better
support for open source boot loaders like U-Boot and coreboot
compared to last year. As a result of this developers can use the
same boot loaders to boot Linux on RISC-V as they do in other
architectures, but there's more work to be done)
- RISC-V hypervisor emulation [5]
- NOMMU Linux for RISC-V
- Any other subject of interest
If you’re interested in participating in this microconference[6] or
have other topics to propose, please contact Atish Patra
(atish.patra@wdc.com) or Palmer Dabbelt (palmer@dabbelt.com)
LPC[7] will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from Monday, September 9 through
Wednesday, September 11.
We hope to see you there!
[1] https://www.embecosm.com/2018/05/07/surveying-the-free-an...
[2] https://riscv.org/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/749185/
[4] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/RISC-V
[5] https://content.riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Tue0...
[6] https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/page/34-accepte...
[7] https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/
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