Re: [yocto] are there any plans for a RISC-V reference board?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2023, Josef Holzmayr wrote:

> Hi Robert,

> It has been discussed at numerous occasions. The main blocker is: we
> need a commitment for the maintenance. So if a high-ranking member
> decides to push forwards with this and allocate resources, or a new
> member from the RISC-V ecosystem steps up to make it happen, then
> the project is all ears.
>
> Greetz,
> Josef

   Ask and ye shall receive. I just got the following private note
from jiaqi.dong@starfivetech.com, who obviously saw my earlier post
(and agreed to let me reproduce his response to me to the list):

> I think VisionFive 2 is an appropriate reference board. We offer
> Long Term Support for JH7110 and VisionFive 2. After being upgraded,
> VisionFive 2 with big improvements in the processor work frequency,
> multimedia processing capabilities, and scalability. Since August of
> last year, we have continued to promote the ecosystem of VF2, it has
> successively adapted to Deepin OS, Ubuntu OS, UEFI EDK2, OpenWrt,
> PPSSPP…you can check out the RVspace forum. So we would like to work
> with the developers and provide LTS if there are specific project
> requirements.

  Sound promising?

rday