I spent too much time writing my single entry this week so it's all I have. The issue itself is somewhat complex, so I thought it warranted a deep dive. Relaxing R_RISCV_PCREL_* in the Presence of Addends Jim recently found an issue with our ELF relocation scheme. While technically it's a somewhat...

Introduction to Linux Kernel Development For those of you interested in getting involved in the RISC-V Linux kernel porting effort, I wrote a short email that links to the various sources of information that might help people get started. Developer Room at FOSDEM I submitted a proposal for a RISC-V ...

GNU Tools Cauldron Trip Report, Part 2 I was at the GNU tools cauldron last week. I summarized the two BoF sessions in last week's entry. While that was the extent of the RISC-V specific events at the cauldron, I attended the remainder of the cauldron where there were some great sessions. Vector A...

This is the last version of "Last Week in RISC-V" that I plan on sending to the various mailing lists, as we'll be posting the rest of them on SiFive's Blog. I didn't get any contributions, but I also haven't gotten through my email yet -- sorry if I missed anything that's been sent it, but I'm not...

The FU540-C000, which is available on the HiFive Unleashed development board, is a Linux capable board based on the open source Freedom platform. We built this chip to drive RISC-V Linux development, and it's been incredibly successful. In the three months since we started shipping the board the R...

Welcome to the first issue of "Last Week in RISC-V", a weekly newsletter tracking the RISC-V community. This newsletter was born out of a discussion in SiFive's internal RISC-V software team and I'm compiling it so it'll have a somewhat heavy focus on the open source software community for now as t...