Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform
—The Register

｢ A 38-strong group of tech players have founded a project with the snappy name Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, aka DARE, that aims to develop processor units to power the continent’s supercomputers and other high-performance machines ｣

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/dare_europe_risc_v_project/

#Europe bets on #RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/dare_europe_risc_v_project/

"Do you #DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for #supercomputing #sovereignty
€240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for #HPC, #AI"

If the #EU would take this serious, that should have been Billions instead if Millions. And not a 3y sprint.

This would be really worth the investment. We need much more than that. Yesterday.

PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More

Highlights of PipeWire 1.4 include support for the RISC-V CPU architecture, a PipeWire JACK control API, DSD playback for the ALSA plugin, a system service for pipewire-pulse, Bluetooth support for BAP broadcast links, support for hearing aids using ASHA, a new G722 codec, and UMP (aka MIDI2) support.

9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-is-…
#Musicproduction #Pipewire #Midi2 #RiscV

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

- if you do read this you're a #luddite
- #RISCV builds our catalogue
- change your #Mastodon client
- #freeminer takes on #Luanti
- fresh #OpenConnect
- update #QUIK SMS
- #shatteredpixeldungeon 3.0 introduces The Cleric
- #warsmash brings Warcraft III into your hands

Up to 209 apps touched upon in https://f-droid.org/2025/03/06/twif.html

As RISC-V continues to develop as an architecture, learn about how Fedora is working in this space to enable RISC-V support!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnq08SNx1O8

ual is a new programming language for small systems, it borrows from Lua, Forth, and Go/TinyGo.
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual

It's not a scripting language, it compiles to TinyGo, and Go, therefore binaries are produced for the same targets of those compilers. In the case of TinyGo using an optimised LLVM-based backend (esp32, risc-v, wasm, various mcus), and for mainstream server/desktop computing architectures via the Go compiler's own backend (x86-64, arm64, etc.) and OSes (Linux, Mac, Windows).
The general idea is that this design allows developers for fast iteration cycles on a workstation, with sound and safely tested algorithms before moving to a second stage workflow on the real embedded platform.

((Work in progrees))
Not ready to use yet, but I thought I'd RFC before I complete the first implementation, whilst there's still time.

Hope you find it interesting!

Spec:
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/tree/main/spec

Examples:
https://github.com/ha1tch/ual/tree/main/examples

Let me know what you think!

RISC-V represents an exciting future for computing - one where everything from CPU architecture up to your favorite applications can be fully open.

We are excited to share a few milestones toward RISC-V support that our RISC-V SIG has produced!

* A RISC-V Koji instance is now live in our data center to support development and package maintenance
* We have ready-to-boot images that you can try using today

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/risc-v-and-fedora-all-aboard/

I have managed to cross-compile mini-rv32ima (a tiny RISC-V Linux emulator) to 32-bit Windows and run it on Windows XP.

This is unbelievably cursed.

Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199
—Ars Technica

｢ Framework CEO Nirav Patel says the board "is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V," and processor limitations mean it uses soldered-down RAM and eMMC storage rather than the user-replaceable RAM and storage that the other Framework boards use ｣

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-laptop-expands-beyond-x86-with-its-first-ever-risc-v-based-motherboard/

#Framework Laptop’s #RISCV board for #OpenSource diehards is available for $199

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-laptop-expands-beyond-x86-with-its-first-ever-risc-v-based-motherboard/

I was excited about this #RiscV mainboard for #Framework laptops, until I saw that the RAM is soldered and it uses eMMC storage. I guess I should have expected that, right? ​

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/framework-laptop-expands-beyond-x86-with-its-first-ever-risc-v-based-motherboard/

Updating an charging up my two project devices. #oneplus6 with #postmarketos edge and #dcromapad2 running #ubuntu on #riscv for #fosdem tomorrow!

I‘m really looking forward to meeting some of my heroes of free software, hardware (eg yuning liang) as well as the free social web (@Gargron)

Feel free to approach me. I‘ll be wearing a blue led nametag with my handle.

Banana Pi BPI-F3 RISC-V SBC Bianbu supports dual system boot image online
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEsE6Go5_qY
#riscv #sbc #raspberrypi #bananapi #linux

｢ For #RISCV to truly reach the mainstream, it still needs to gain traction in the laptop market ｣

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-rise-of-risc-2025-will-be-the-year-of-the-first-quasi-mainstream-risc-v-laptop-as-confirmed-by-the-ceo-of-framework-but-i-dont-think-it-will-be-ready-for-primetime

I just booted NetBSD/riscv for the first time on qemu, running on a Raspberry Pi 400. #NetBSD #RiscV #RaspberryPi

I was going through my closet to finish up a build that I'm selling to a coworker, and I totally forgot that @gloriouseggroll gifted me a #Jonsbo C2 with two drives and a cooler a while back.

Anyone have a great suggestion for an #ITX or smaller #riscv or #arm board for this case? I'd love a low-power fileserver/family chat host.

I just booted uLinux on #TinyTapeout 6!

Very easy to use flashing tool by Uri made it easy to test Hirosh's SoC!

Also big thanks to @mike & @mole99 for the PMOD we're using with designs that need external memory.