Dear list,
GSoC has accepted a project to port seL4 to RISC-V (64 bit) architecture, which is used in the lowRISC System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Open Source project. Further, lowRISC supports another project to port rump kernels to minimal RISC-V cores which lowRISC plans to use as I/O co-processors, for example as TCP/IP offload engines [1].
There are tool chains and ports of Linux kernels to RISC-V / lowRISC to run them in simulators and emulators (qemu), on FPGA (Xilinx Zynq), and ASIC [2, 3].
Although my HW/SW co-design skills are a bit rusty, I am tempted to reverse that and try such a port. In order to get a better idea about complexity and effort required, I currently study the sources of base-hw for ARMv7, and its recent port to x86_64 in the staging branch.
Is anyone aware of such a porting effort, or has anyone else an interest to run Genode base-hw on RISC-V64, and might want to chime in eventually?
Thanks, Rolf
[1] http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2015/05/summer-of-code-students-for-lowrisc/ [2] http://riscv.org/ [3] https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket-chip