Open Collaboration in Action: How We Build RISC-V
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Open collaborative process explains how RISC‑V moves from proposals on GitHub and tracked in Jira to ratified specs, with 40+ specs ratified in two years, ~4,000 individual members, and a typical spec life cycle of about one year; creating a new technical committee takes roughly 1.5 months. Development uses a Sail golden model, profiles like RVA/RVB to bundle extensions, 22 SIGs and 24 test groups, mentorships that attract hundreds of applicants, and an in‑progress certification test suite.
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chapters (30)
- 0:00RISC-V collaboration intro
- 1:50Why RISC-V grows fast
- 3:41Open vs proprietary ISAs
- 5:50Global RISC-V adoption
- 7:14RISC-V 15-year milestones
- 8:00Developing RISC-V specs
- 10:29Community-built RISC-V
- 11:52RISC-V base ISA explained
- 13:35RISC-V membership structure
- 15:23Technical and SIG groups
- 17:31AI workloads in RISC-V
- 19:19Vector ops software interfaces
- 20:26SIGs vs test groups
- 22:12Profiles for compatibility
- 23:15Creating new RISC-V committee
- 24:43RISC-V spec lifecycle
- 26:48RISC-V GitHub workflow
- 28:12Custom extensions in RISC-V
- 28:56Platform dev timelines
- 30:41How to join RISC-V
- 31:45Ways to contribute
- 32:26Sail for golden model
- 32:47Kernel dev opportunities
- 33:51Compiler optimizations
- 34:54Device tree challenges
- 35:57Testing and certification
- 36:42Docs and Jira tracking
- 37:45RISC-V learning resources
- 38:48Engagement programs
- 40:15Closing remarks
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