We are pleased to announce that the RISC-V Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. The RISC-V software eco-system is gaining momentum at breakneck speed with three new Linux development platforms available this year. The new platforms bring new issues to deal with.
Last year’s meetup achieved the following:
- glibc upstreaming for RV32
- RISC-V platform specification improvements
- EBBR support for RISC-V
- Progress towards merging KVM
This year’s topics to be discussed include:
- Platform specification progress, including SBI-0.3 and the future plans for SBI-0.4. There has been significant progress on the platform specifications, including a server profile, that needs discussion.
- Privileged specification progress, possible 1.12 (which is a work in progress at the foundation).
- Support for the V and B specifications, along with questions about the drafts. The V extension is of particular interest, as there are implementation of the draft extensions that are likely to be incompatible with what will eventually be ratified so we need to discuss what exactly user ABI compatibility means.
- H extension / KVM discussion, which is probably part of the drafts. The KVM port has been hung up on the H extension ratification process, which is unlikely to proceed any time soon. We should discuss other options for a KVM port that avoid waiting for the H extension.
- Support for the batch of SOCs currently landing (JH7100, D1)
- Support for non-coherent systems
- How to handle compliance.
Come join us and participate in the discussion on how we can improve the support for RISC-V in the Linux kernel.
We hope to see you there.
