European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative

	European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative(erici.eu)
	203 points by ymz5 9 days ago \| 135 comments
	tl;dr: ERICI (European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative) is a non-commercial effort to build an open reference stack for RISC-V industrial computers based on the newly-ratified RVA23 profile, spanning firmware (HFI BIOS), bootloader (mr-bml), a partitioning hypervisor (gRouvr), a QNX-style RTOS (QSOE), and Linux. The goal is to break the chicken-and-egg deadlock where board makers wait for software and vice versa, by verifying the full stack together on real RVA23 silicon (currently SpacemiT K3-based boards). ERICI is now recruiting hardware makers, silicon vendors, and machine builders to contribute.
	HN Discussion: ↓This is just one random individual's website, not a real European initiative ↓Calling it 'European' is ironic since RISC-V chips are made in China •Author clarifies intent and invites European manufacturers to engage ↓Questioning what problem this actually solves given industrial machines already run for decades ↑This is exactly the kind of open RISC-V effort Europe should pursue