05:17 <PrathamPatel[m]> Of the components sent upstream (regardless of if they are merged or not), what is necessary for a functioning system that is headless (with UART ofc)?

05:18 <PrathamPatel[m]> https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan

05:18 <davidlt[m]> DT and clock patchset (I think it was merged into a single one).

05:19 <davidlt[m]> That's what you need on the kernel side. OpenSBI master branch would work without any patches.

05:19 <davidlt[m]> Then there is U-Boot single large patchset to add VF2.

05:19 <PrathamPatel[m]> davidlt[m]: I think everything except for the reset/power-off patchset, everything in OpenSBI is merged upstream

07:26 <davidlt[m]> nirik: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/us-govt-blacklists-loongson-and-inspur

07:26 <davidlt[m]> China had export ban for Loongson.

07:27 <davidlt[m]> Now US also added Loongson to the blacklist.

07:48 <cwt[m]> Hmm why?

08:26 <davidlt[m]> Well this is geopolitics.

12:27 <PrathamPatel[m]> Can anyone confirm is the docs of VF2 mention a hardware clock (time)?

12:28 <PrathamPatel[m]> Can anyone confirm if the VF2 docs state that it does or does not have a hardware clock (for time)?

14:27 <davidlt[m]> You mean RTC?

14:27 <davidlt[m]> https://doc-en.rvspace.org/JH7110/Datasheet/JH7110_DS/rtc.html

14:37 <PrathamPatel[m]> Yep, I confirmed it with `hwclock`.

14:38 <PrathamPatel[m]> Thank you though :)

14:51 <davidlt[m]> Note that there are no battery on the board :)

14:59 <cwt[m]> The RTC is on CPU, I plan to buy an external I2C or SPI RTC.

15:12 <PrathamPatel[m]> <davidlt[m]> "Note that there are no battery..." <- Michael in Arch Linux RISC-V room suggested systemd-timesyncd as a good option for NTP and it works :)

15:12 <PrathamPatel[m]> <cwt[m]> "The RTC is on CPU, I plan to buy..." <- Any particular reason why?

15:14 <cwt[m]> oh, I just checked the price, I2C RTC is really cheap. I just ordered 5 modules with the sum of their prices being just around 3 USD.

15:15 <cwt[m]> PrathamPatel[m]: Because there will be some situations that the board cannot connect to network.

15:15 <PrathamPatel[m]> Fair :)

15:16 <cwt[m]> And the price is less than a Starbucks coffee.

15:17 <PrathamPatel[m]> haha

15:20 <cwt[m]> I also have other boards that I can play which may have some benefits from RTC modules too. I have >10 ESP32 and other boards available.

22:40 <ol> <cwt[m]> "oh, I just checked the price..." <- Which one did you buy?