Preface

About this guide and technical support information.

About this document

This thesis was written by StarFive, as a part of the JH-7110 SoC project. This thesis introduces running RT-Linux on VisionFive 2 board, showing the performance of the RT-Linux on the VisionFive 2 board. Also, it introduces the development of the RISC-V RT-Linux. One latest and important news is that RT-Linux is officially support RISC-V architecture starting form kernel 6.6 (LTS). Several years later we can see RISC-V SoC will be running on industrial projects.

Revision History

Table 1. Revision History
Version Released Revision
1.12 2024/03/27 Updated the data in Latency Measurements.
1.11 2024/01/25 Added the description about RT-Linux officially support RISC-V architecture from kernel 6.6.
1.1 2023/10/31 Updated Appendix A: Real-Time Linux Defconfig.
1.0 2023/06/13 The first official release.

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