Introduction

This is the top page of the R-Car Community, a developer-oriented ecosystem and community designed to support the evaluation, validation, and application development of Renesas R-Car SoCs using open-source software (OSS).

What’s New

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Product:
  • 2026-10-30 Release Sparrow Hawk \New/
    The Yocto BSP has been updated to fix the license compliance and a problem in building the toolchain.
  • 2026-10-23 Announce Sparrow Hawk \New/
    The Zephyr page of Sparrow Hawk is available again.
  • 2026-10-23 Release Sparrow Hawk \New/
    The Yocto BSP and the Debian based BSP have been updated. U-Boot has been updated to fix the problem that Zephyr does not run.
  • 2026-10-22 Announce Sparrow Hawk \New/
    The Zephyr page of Sparrow Hawk is temporarily unpublished because a problem was found in testing.
  • 2026-10-19 Announce Sparrow Hawk \New/
    The Zephyr page of Sparrow Hawk is now available.
  • 2026-10-19 Release Sparrow Hawk \New/
    The Yocto BSP and the Debian based BSP have been updated to Linux kernel v6.18.54 and U-Boot v2026.10. The procedures for booting from USB/NVMe and for checking the GPU have been added.
  • 2026-04-15 Release Sparrow Hawk
    The Yocto BSP and the Debian based BSP have been updated to Linux kernel v6.18 and U-Boot v2026.04.
  • 2025-12-04 Announce Sparrow Hawk
    Dedicated pages for the Yocto BSP and the Debian based BSP of Sparrow Hawk are now available.
  • 2025-08-07 Announce Sparrow Hawk
    The Home Page for Sparrow Hawk is now live.