Unstoppable Force Behind Linux on RISC-V

October 2024

RISC-V @ Ubuntu Summit

Gordan Markus

Director Silicon Alliances,

Canonical

RISC-V is all about collaboration!

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Last year @ Ubuntu Summit

• Presentation by John Ronco, SiFive

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This year @ Ubuntu Summit

• Presentation by Yuning Liang, DeepComupting
• Pioneers in creating RISC-V consumer devices
• Enabling RISC-V to reach the developer community in familiar form factors
• Exactly what the RISC-V ecosystem needed!

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Yuning Liang

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Founder

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Who are we and What we do

RISC-V Premium Product Pioneer Focusing on

• Consumer Electronics
• Modern Personal Computing Devices
• And Some RISC-V Run & Fun Gadgets

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RISC-V Prospect

Dream Big Enough

• Goal to reach 30% of ISA market against incumbents
• Among all the big names and players

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RISC-V Journey

Journey Hard Enough

• x86 on PC/Server from 80s, e.g. Intel/AMD
• Arm on Mobile from 2010s, e.g. Qualcomm/MTK
• RISC-V on What? AI? How? From 2020s?

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RISC-V Faith and Destiny, like Linux Kernel?

Past, Present and Future Openness

• x86 from US and driven by US
• Closed, owned by Intel, and AMD
• ARM from Europe and driven by the global
• Semi-Close, Semi-Open owned by ARM
• RISC-V from US, migrate to Europe and driven by Asia
• Open, belong to Humanity

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Making RISC-V a Successful Reality

• Keep introducing mass-produced products to the market.

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• Proactively involve existing key partners, e.g. IP/SoC/OSes

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• Inspire and motivate ecosystem potential new members

Breaking the dead locked cycle

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Partnering Challenges

Bringing together different partners

• In different stages
• Via iterative cycle

• Different goals and priorities, misalignment in objectives and timelines
• Technical compatibility and fragmentation across software and hardware (from IP to SoC)
• Resource-intensive integration

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DeepComputing x Canonical �@ RISC-V Summit EU 2024

DeepComputing and Canonical

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DC-ROMA Laptops/Pad

Both DC-ROMA Laptop I/II and Pad II

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DeepComputing x Framework

• Framework Laptop was made for this�
• Long-lived design and architecture enables scalable ecosystems�
• “Design for personalization”�
• Open ecosystems are (very) powerful�
• Developer-ready today empowers consumer-ready tomorrow

Nirav Patel

CEO

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Kernel Upstreaming

Current Status:

• OS distribution not able to build official images
• Latest kernel release not support any SoC hardware
• Neither in a good quality
• Nor In a good timing
• SoC manufacturer is NOT focused on kernel upstreaming

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Kernel Upstreaming Timing for SoC

Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fellow,

Linux Foundation

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RISC-V Kernel Upstreaming Goals and Partners

2025 Goals:

Latest Kernel/OS latest released can be built and run on all DeepComputing Products

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Partners:

• Framework Engineers, e.g., Alex/Daniel, etc.
• Linux Kernel Maintainers, e.g., Greg KH
• SoC Partner Engineers, e.g., StarFive/Spacemit, etc.
• OS Partner Engineers, e.g., Ubuntu Emil, etc.
• Upstream Specialist Partners, e.g., RISCStar, etc.

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Exciting 2025 Roadmap

Framework 13”

4 Core

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Thank You