RISC-V Summit

Yocto project is a widely adopted standard set of tools and infrastructure for building Embedded systems, 
ranging from complex systems based on Linux to RTOS and bare-metal applications.
It's based on OpenEmbedded build technology which has supported RISC-V the architecture from its early days. 


The Yocto project has a layered architecture, which provides a scalable mechanism for adding and
customizing new hardware and software support. However, there is a balance required for the best outcome.  Core architecture support in the Core layer provides common policies for RISC-V. The architecture layer (meta-riscv) adds additional RISC-V specific customizations and holds support for many SBCs with RISC-V processors. 


The Yocto Project has gathered years of experience in deploying into a wide range of products e.g. cars, streaming devices, routers, and cameras to name a few.  It is important to leverage these learnings and benefits for the RISC-V ecosystem. This presentation will address the challenges and gaps we have for RISC-V to become tier 1 supported architecture. 


In this talk we will provide an overview of how RISC-V is supported in the Yocto project and adjacent layers. Additionally, we will describe the huge opportunity to get RISC-V supported as core architecture.  RISC-V is a fast developing architecture. An important aspect of this presentation will be how to get involved in OSS development on RISC-V.