Driven by Mr. Wu Wei, the Chinese contact person of the RISC-V International Foundation, recently, the openKylin community officially joined the RISC-V Foundation and became a member of its industry alliance , contributing more to the RISC-V ecological construction, building an operating system and RISC-V architecture software and hardware eco-coordinated development.
RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) launched in 2010 by a research team at the University of California, Berkeley. Compared with other architectures, RISC-V has the characteristics of free, efficient, concise and open. Therefore, after this architecture came out, it quickly attracted the attention of many manufacturers and research institutions. As a new CPU instruction set, RISC-V has now grown into the third largest CPU camp after x86 and ARM.
The RISC-V Foundation, established in 2015, is the world's first open and mutual support community dedicated to promoting innovation in this field . Up to now, the foundation has more than 275 members, including 169 corporate and institutional members, including both software and hardware innovators.
openKylin, as the root community of the desktop operating system, has been paying close attention to and continuously investing in the ecological construction of the RISC-V architecture since its establishment. It has independently built a version of the RISC-V open source desktop operating system from the source code level. Currently, it can support HiFive Unmatched, VisionFive2, LicheePi and SG2042 EVB and other hardware platforms support more than 80% of the mainstream RISC-V chips in the market, and jointly released the world's first RISC-V-equipped notebook computer ROMA with Deepin Digital Intelligence .
At the same time, the openKylin community R&D team also optimized the UKUI desktop environment based on the RISC-V instruction set and GPU to improve user experience, and adapted common software such as openKylin self-developed software, Libreoffice, browser, video player, and programming development to meet meet the basic needs of users.
In the future, openKylin will join hands with the RISC-V Foundation and ecological partners to continue to promote the compatibility and adaptation of RISC-V architecture chips and openKylin operating systems, and work together to develop and explore the RISC-V ecosystem.