08-15, 10:40–12:00 (US/Eastern), Metcalf Hall (capacity 300)
Let's get together and discuss RISC-V and the universe forming around it. This talk covers advances in the RISC-V software ecosystem. RISC-V is a flexible and fully open hardware architecture, curated by the non-profit RISC-V International foundation (riscv.org) using the best practices of open source. While the open source community has responded with a great deal of distributed effort, there are notable gaps in support, particularly for commercial-grade applications. The industry has responded by forming the RISE Project (riseproject.dev), a collaboration among 20+ organizations to support and advance the software ecosystem by providing engineering and financial resources.
Jefro is a serving CentOS board member and chair for the CentOS Automotive SIG. He works at Red Hat as an open source strategist and community architect for automotive and edge communities as well as RISC-V. Prior to Red Hat, he spent two years at the Linux Foundation working on RISC-V and LF Energy; eight years at Intel where he helped launch and run the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, OpenBMC, project ACRN, and a number of other communities; and 20 years as a technical writer, mostly focused on embedded systems and open source.