Overview
Syllabus
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Software Ecosystem Overview Linux kernel, RTOS, QEMU, Applications, Toolchain
Linux Ecosystem: Status At-a-glance Fast progress but more work needed
Toolchain: Compilers and Core Libraries Compilers OK, libraries need work
RISC-V Boot Flow Follows commonly used multiple boot stages model
OpenSBI open-source implementation of SBI specifications
Boot Loaders
Linux kernel Support added with kernel 4.15
Hypervisors Type-1/Type-2 hypervisor support available on RISC-V
Linux Distributions Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse are very active Fedora: stage 4 disk images released
Non-Linux distributions Slow progress
Taught by
linux.conf.au