{"id":407,"date":"2019-05-10T19:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.linuxplumbersconf.org\/blog\/2019\/?p=79"},"modified":"2023-03-08T07:05:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:05:22","slug":"risc-v-microconference-accepted-for-the-2019-linux-plumbers-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpc.events\/blog\/current\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/risc-v-microconference-accepted-for-the-2019-linux-plumbers-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"RISC-V microconference accepted for the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embecosm.com\/2018\/05\/07\/surveying-the-free-and-open-source-risc-v-ecosystem\/\">open nature<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/riscv.org\/\">RISC-V ecosystem<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/749185\/\">new hardware options<\/a>. Since last year&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s RISC-V microconference was such a <a href=\"https:\/\/etherpad.openstack.org\/p\/RISC-V\">success<\/a> that we would like to repeat that again this year by focusing on finding solutions and discussing ideas that require kernel changes.<\/p>\n<p>Topics for this year microconference are expected to cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RISC-V Platform Specification Progress, including some extensions such as power management\n<li>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&#8217;s more work to be done)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/content.riscv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Tue0942-riscv-hypervisor-waterman.pdf\">RISC-V hypervisor emulation<\/a>\n<li>NOMMU Linux for RISC-V\n<li>Any other subject of interest\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in participating in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxplumbersconf.org\/event\/4\/page\/34-accepted-microconferences#risc-v\">microconference<\/a>,  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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxplumbersconf.org\/event\/4\/abstracts\/\">the CfP page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linuxplumbersconf.org\/event\/4\/\">LPC<\/a> will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from Monday, September 9 through Wednesday, September 11.<\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Plumbers, many kernel features were added to RISC-V. 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