In case you missed it at the 2024 Samsung Developer Conference today, our partners at Samsung Visual Display discussed the work they have been doing to port the Tizen operating system to RISC-V. Tizen is an open-source operating system (OS) that is used in many Samsung smart T.V.s and it makes sense that they would look to the fast growing, global open-standard RISC-V to develop future systems. The presentation showed the results of efforts at both companies to expand the capabilities of the already robust Tizen approach. At the event they also demonstrated a T.V. running on RISC-V and using a SiFive Performance P470 based core.
↫ John Ronco
The announcement is sparse on details, and there isn’t much more to add than this, but the reality is that of course Samsung was going to port Tizen to RISC-V. The growing architecture is bound to compete with the industry standard ARM in a variety of market segments, and it makes perfect sense to have your TV and other (what we used to call) embedded operating systems ready to go.
Samsung’s CEO rubbed his two functional braincells together and asked himself: “Why pay patent royalties to ARM when RISC-V is free and our Tizen SmartTV platform has essentially zero binary backwards compatibility requirements?”
Good for him (and Samsung).
Does Samsung still use .NET to build Tizen applications? If they are porting that to RISC-V, it is pretty interesting.
Yes, see https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/84834
Hello, not strictly related, but maybe someone knows something about this: “Tizen is an open-source operating system” I’ve tried to get the code and build it a few times in the last months, but the project appears quite dead: I’ve written to the forum (developer.tizen.org) but no reply, git servers appear very slow and it’s lagging heavily, and I couldn’t see any commits and any tickets visible in the gerrit system. Does someone know something about this, is the project really dead or just I’m looking in the wrong place? Thank you in advance and sorry for being somewhat off-topic.
Yeah Tizen is odd. I’m haven’t tried to see if they are violating the letter of the law with licensing, but there hasn’t been a runable version in some time. I think they abandoned any pretense of having a community around it. It failed as a phone OS,