In search for reviewer/tester for Risc-V JH7110/Star64

In search for reviewer/tester for Risc-V JH7110/Star64

[Christoph Zimmermann]

Hi

I ask here for a friend. He achieved quite some progress in bringing
missing pieces of the Risc-V JH7110 SoC to mainline and/or bugfixing
dts stuff.

Problem is now that he needs reviewers/testers and it seems that only
few can do that or are missing hardware.

"they need participation, even if it is only "Tested-by"
some of the patches need a deep understanding of JH7110, and it may be
such technical knowledge that a competent Linux developer will give us
advice how we can find answers for our questions most of the patches
are simple and can be easily examined and tested for, if having JH7110
hardware (like Star64) one example of easy to test
patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250102194530.418127-5-e@freeshell.de/
"

The full list of the discussions:
Liste: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=star64

I my self am far away of being useful for this (I did writing how-to's
to install Debian and kind of things for this platform) but I have a
Star64 board and the needed accessories. So if someone in Switzerland
is interested I'm willing to lend the hardware to someone for this.

All the best and happy hacking in 2025
Christoph

Re: In search for reviewer/tester for Risc-V JH7110/Star64

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 12/01/2025 20:21, Christoph Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I ask here for a friend. He achieved quite some progress in bringing
> missing pieces of the Risc-V JH7110 SoC to mainline and/or bugfixing
> dts stuff.
> 
> Problem is now that he needs reviewers/testers and it seems that only
> few can do that or are missing hardware.
> 
> "they need participation, even if it is only "Tested-by"


I forwarded your message to friend who does some work around mainline
RISC-V and was looking for some involvement, although nothing related to
Switzerland so no hardware shipment.

> some of the patches need a deep understanding of JH7110, and it may be
> such technical knowledge that a competent Linux developer will give us
> advice how we can find answers for our questions most of the patches
> are simple and can be easily examined and tested for, if having JH7110
> hardware (like Star64) one example of easy to test
> patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250102194530.418127-5-e@freeshell.de/
> "

I won't have time, but I admit that such projects are tempting - still
small community. Not like Rpi, where you send a patch and then discover
that 10 people already were working on this feature. :)

Best regards,
Krzysztof