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Android 17 Comes to RISC-V BayLibre Brings Up SpacemiT K3 and Alibaba T-Head A210 Android 17 now runs on two RISC-V platforms: the SpacemiT K3 and the Alibaba T-Head A210. BayLibre led the engineering work on both, as part of…

Linux v7.3 was released on October 18, 2026. BayLibre contributed 158 authored commits: the tree-wide device-ID modernization, Allwinner A733 clock support, a new TI ADC driver, a Meson AIU audio rework, and fixes across serial, USB and DRM. The release…

Yocto Blacksail (6.1) was released on October 21, 2026, following Wrynose (6.0). BayLibre authored 107 commits this cycle, most of them in meta-riscv, which added its first SpacemiT K3 machines and consolidated its kernel and boot recipes. Trevor Gamblin wrote…

Zephyr v4.5.0 was released on October 29, 2026. BayLibre contributed 376 authored commits this cycle, spanning a generic system-timer core and a reworked sleep and timeout API in the kernel, ARM64 memory management, the TF-M and Mbed TLS stack, a…

U-Boot v2026.10 was released on October 5, 2026. BayLibre authored 140 commits for this release. The largest single thread is Julien Stephan’s 32-patch cleanup of the MediaTek clock drivers, alongside David Lechner’s rework of parent-clock lookup across 15 SoCs and…

We’ve just released a new open-source hardware extension for Copilot Lite: the Triple Relay board. Copilot Lite is a small device used to control the power and UART of a Device Under Test (DUT). The relay extension is a HAT-style…