VisionFive 2 Ecosystem Bi-weekly Updates (10.17-10.31)

StarFive News

  1. StarFive presented its JH-7110 SoC based solutions including the 1st RISC-V laptop computer - ROMA and the Forlinx Industrial Embedded DevKit. The exhibition is held from 10/30/2023 to 11/1/2023 in Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center and welcome to visit the StarFive booth at No. 1A37.



    Read more about ROMA
    Read more about Forlinx

  2. COSCon’23 is held in Chengdu on Oct. 28th to 29th. StarFive has presented VisonFive 2 SBC, the RISC-V open hardware platform, at the booth. Meanwhile, StarFive Sales Marketing Manager Allen Xue presented the “RISC-V Open Hardware Platform and Open Source Ecosystem Community Construction” speech at the “Open Source Hardware Forum” during the COSCon.



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Social Media Updates

  1. openEuler announced its 23.09 release and officially claims to support RISC-V as a T1 architecture. Since supporting VisionFive 2 back in February, StarFive and openEuler have always collaborated and both making steady efforts to contribute to the RISC-V ecosystem.



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  2. USN-6444-2: Linux kernel (StarFive) vulnerabilities were released last week. Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.


    Ubuntu 22.04:
    linux-starfive-6.2 package in Ubuntu
    linux-starfive-6.2 6.2.0-1007.8~22.04.1 source package in Ubuntu
    linux-meta-starfive-6.2 package in Ubuntu
    linux-meta-starfive-6.2 6.2.0.1007.8~22.04.1 source package in Ubuntu

  3. “Christopher Barnatt" has released the Top 6 New SBCs 2023 video. He introduced the best new single board computers for makers and enthusiasts of the past 12 months. VisionFive 2 reached number 3 in the charts.



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  4. “lupyuen” posted the article Experiments with OpenSBI (Supervisor Binary Interface). In this article, he boots Apache NuttX RTOS on a JH7110 RISC-V SBC (VisionFive2 / Star64) to experiment with OpenSBI:
    (1) Print to the Serial Console
    (2) Set a System Timer
    (3) Query the RISC-V CPUs
    (4) Fetch the System Information
    (5) And Shutdown / Reboot our SBC


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  5. DietPi v8.23 which was released this past week, introduced a variety of enhancements, specifically targeting devices like VisionFive 2 and other products, alongside several notable improvements and many bug fixes.
    October updates for DiePi v8.23:


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  6. “Biblioman” posted a “cacharreo” video with VisionFive 2: it’s about firmware update and installation of Debian in NVME.


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  7. The developer “XX” has shared a tutorial about how to develop uboot on VisionFive 2.


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  8. The developer “jf_41556810 ” has shared a tutorial about how to install ROS2 humble on VisionFive 2.


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  9. The developer “Zerolinr ” has shared a post about using QT and PCL on VisionFive 2.


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