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.

Last year’s RISC-V microconference was such a success 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
• NOMMU Linux for RISC-V
• Any other subject of interest

If you’re interested in participating in this microconference, please contact Atish Patra (atish.patra@wdc.com) or Palmer Dabbelt (palmer@dabbelt.com) . For Linux Plumbers 2019, new topics for microconferences can be submitted via the Call for Proposals (CfP) interface. Please visit the CfP page for more information.

LPC will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from Monday, September 9 through Wednesday, September 11.

We hope to see you there!