Driving Innovation: Evolving the Role of Software in the RISC-V Ecosystem Beyond...

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RISC-V software shifts from enablement to driving ISA evolution with concrete results: unified discovery draft and indirect function support in glibc/ld so kernels and userland can detect vendor extensions; upstream paths for vendor extensions and a merged conventions doc for toolchains; nested virtualization validated and optimized OpenSSL patches landing; OpenJDK support merged; qemu reaches ~350–450 MIPS for validation; a 1.2M-line auto-vectorizer submission for GCC under cleanup; platform work split into RVM/CSI for MCUs and OSA for rich OS/binary compatibility.

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1. 0:00Introduction to RISC-V software
2. 1:25Major RISC-V extensions
3. 3:49Software's role in the stack
4. 6:16Managing fragmentation in innovation
5. 8:00Upstreaming vendor extensions
6. 9:48OpenJDK support progress
7. 10:29Unified discovery for extensions
8. 12:13Auto vectorization in GCC
9. 13:15End-to-end performance workflows
10. 14:42Domain-specific extensions
11. 16:06Android and Linux support
12. 17:49Platform standardization efforts
13. 19:36Call to join the ecosystem

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