On 06 Oct 2021 10:17, Justin Forbes wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:03 PM Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all! I just got back from Open Source Summit, several of the talks I
> found interesting were on RISC-V -- a high-level one about the
> organizational structure, and Drew Fustini's more technical talk.
>
> In that, he noted that there's a Fedora build *, but it isn't an official
> Fedora arch. As I understand it, the major infrastructure blocker is simply
> that there isn't server-class hardware (let alone hardware that will build
> fast enough that it isn't a frustrating bottleneck).
>
> So, one question is: if we used, say, ARM or x86_64 Amazon cloud instances
> as builders, could we build fast enough under QEMU emulation to work? We
> have a nice early advantage, but if we don't keep moving, we'll lose that.
>
> But beyond that: What other things might be limits? Are there key bits of
> the distro which don't build yet? Is there a big enough risc-v team to
> respond to arch-specific build failures? And, do we have enough people to do
> QA around release time?
Kernel is still an issue, in that the changes to support RISC-V have
not been merged yet, though I expect that is not a massive
undertaking.
Justin
Not been merged? Or just not turned on in the config?
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ciao,
al
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