RISC-V Summit

What is special about community-industry collaboration around an open architecture like RISC-V is that the community can join development around key kernel subsystems in parallel with the semiconductor companies and manufacturers as they are producing the new chipsets and boards. Open silicon design, open board design, and open kernel software speeds bring-up of new boards and fosters greater innovation due to the diversity of talent contributing to the technology. For many kernel developers, tackling RISC-V is becoming harder to resist now that commercially viable and scalable hardware has begun to enter the market. A private beta program launched by the BeagleBoard Foundation in March 2021 placed an affordable, yet powerful prototype RISC-V board into the hands of Roman Shaposhnik. What did Roman do? He joined a diverse team of software and hardware hackers to tackle bringing up Linux on the new board. In this talk, Roman will tell you about his experience porting Alpine Linux and LF Edge EVE-OS to the new RISC-V architecture.