Hello,
Details can be found below for the 62nd meeting, the theme for which is
the RISC-V open ISA.
Regards,
Andrew
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Event #62 — RISC-V, RISC-V, RISC-V
On the 23 November 2017, 18:00 - 21:00 at BCS London, 1st Floor, The
Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA.
Registration: http://oshug.org/event/62
The sixty-second meeting will be on the theme of RISC-V, an open ISA
which started life at the University of California, Berkeley.
A joint meeting with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group.
— Bringing up cycle-accurate models of RISC-V cores
The openness of the RISC-V ISA has enabled the development of many
open-source RISC-V cores with varying capabilities. Choosing an
implementation that meets given requirements can be done to some extent
by comparing specifications and other attributes of the cores, but any
decision must be based on actual testing. Using Verilator to generate
cycle-accurate models enables rapid development of testing platforms.
This talk provides a report of our experience bringing up cycle-accurate
models of two cores in particular, RI5CY from the PuLP project, and
Clifford Wolf's PicoRV32. For testing, a software ecosystem consisting
of a compiler, binary utilities, debugger, and an interface between the
model and debugger accompanies the Verilator model. To compare the
cores, we used the GCC test suite and the RISC-V ISA test suite for
measuring correctness, and the Bristol/Embecosm Embedded Benchmark Suite
(BEEBS) to compare performance. All code and scripts used for the
implementation are open-source, and can be re-used by others who wish to
do similar exercises with other RISC-V cores.
* Edward Jones has a background in parsing techniques and works at
Embecosm on LLVM and GNU toolchains. He is also involved in research by
Embecosm to investigate ways in which the software tool chain can reduce
program energy consumption. Edward Jones is a Computer Science graduate
of the University of Kent.
— FreeBSD/RISC-V and Device Drivers
The FreeBSD port to RISC-V 64-bit ISA was added in January 2016. FreeBSD
is the first operating system that officially supported RISC-V in the
main repository. Since its introduction, support has evolved, RISC-V
privileged architecture has updated a few times. The platform is
maturing making it suitable for general, commercial, research and
educational use. The GCC v7.0 target for RISC-V was officialy upstreamed
and NVIDIA is planning to ship all of their GPUs with RISC-V coprocessor
enabled in the future. Several companies have announced the start of
RISC-V chip development and many universities are taking RISC-V as a
target architecture for doing research. The world first RISC-V
microcontroller-class board HiFive1 was released and we are getting
closer to the first general purpose board to become available! This talk
will describe the current status of FreeBSD/RISC-V, toolchain and
supported simulators. The porting process as well as describing the
latest changes made to FreeBSD in order to support the latest RISC-V
privilege specification (v1.10). This includes enabling by default FDT
support and drivers attachment change, SBI interface, compiler
flags/built-in definition changes, support for updated BBL boot loader,
RISC-V privilege levels, initial page tables build, page table entry
flags and other changes. An overview of FreeBSD device drivers subsystem
will also be covered describing the device frameworks, buses and
kernel-interfaces that exists in FreeBSD (e.g. Newbus, cdevsw, bus_dma,
SYSINIT, vt, sound, ifnet, spibus, etc), how to use and configure them
and how to debug a device driver. This should answer the question: How
to write device driver for FreeBSD/RISC-V?
* Ruslan Bukin is a Research Associate at University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory. He has been a FreeBSD user since 2002 and src
committer since 2013. His main interests and contributions to FreeBSD
are related to computer architectures support, performance monitoring
technologies support, hardware tracing technologies (Intel PT),
devicedrivers, DMA engines and DMA frameworks, hardware security (Intel
SGX, CHERI), heterogeneous computing. Ruslan is the lead developer of
the FreeBSD/RISC-V project. He obtained a Computer Science degree in
2008 from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow
— Talk #3 TBA
Note: Please aim to arrive by 18:15 as the event will start at 18:30 prompt.
Closing date for bookings is Tuesday 21st November 2017 at 11:30 pm. No
more bookings will be taken after this date. For overseas delegates who
wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation
letters
--
Andrew Back
http://abopen.com
