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September 2018

SiFiveSep 21, 2018

Last Week in RISC-V: Sept 21, 2018

Introduction to Linux Kernel Development

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SiFiveSep 14, 2018

Last Week in RISC-V: Sept 14, 2018

GNU Tools Cauldron Trip Report, Part 2

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SiFiveSep 7, 2018

Last Week in RISC-V: Sept 7, 2018

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 too far behind so I should have everything read from this week by the end of next week.

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SiFiveSep 6, 2018

An Open Source Release of the Freedom U540-C000's Bootloader

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 RISC-V Linux distribution porting effort, with Debian and Fedora leading the charge, has come farther that it had come in the previous 5 years. It's been incredible watching the open source community get behind the RISC-V ISA, and the level of progress has exceeded anything we could have predicted at the beginning of this year.

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