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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by bogomipz on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:12AM (#18731888)
The author states:

>"I’m working on making this hardware available to builds.sr.ht users in the next few months, where I intend to use it to automate the remainder of the Alpine Linux port and make it available to any other operating systems (including non-Linux) and userspace software which are interested in working on a RISC-V port."

Is this author also the designer of the board? Or do they made they're working on making the software available?

This looks really exciting, looking forward to following the progress.

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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by SpaceManiac on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:34AM (#18731946)
The author means making compute time on the hardware available to run CI builds on their service. If you care about porting your software to RISC-V enough to want to test that software there, hardware is probably a more accurate harness than qemu.
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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by IntelMiner on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:39AM (#18732305)
I'd love to see time being given to Gentoo. They're basically up there with Debian in terms of supporting "alternative" architectures

According to the Handbook. They currently support

Alpha, AMD64, ARM, ARM64 HPPA/PA-RISC, IA64, MIPS, PPC, PPC64, SPARC and x86 (i486 and i686)

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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by als0 on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:23AM (#18732482)
Beyond even. A while ago Debian dropped support for Alpha, IA64 and PA-RISC. Even SPARC isn't supported anymore.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en

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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by wbl on Friday December 21, 2018 @11:15AM (#18734239)
You gotta love an arch that can reorder dependent reads.
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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by bogomipz on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:55PM (#18742673)
Which arch permits reordering of dependent reads? Might you have any resources you could share? Thanks.
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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by qlk1123 on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:22AM (#18732069)
Just a note here, actually Fedora/RISC-V are hosting their release builds on qemu.
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Re:Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V by rwmj on Friday December 21, 2018 @06:19AM (#18732683)
I'm not sure what this means, but we have 3 of these SiFive boards doing builds[1], as well as dozens of qemu instances running on Intel hardware supplied by Facebook. We use the SiFive boards for the largest builds however, things like GCC and the kernel, because they're still much better than qemu.

[1] Or we were up to yesterday when we had a hardware failure (on an Intel machine) so our build system is currently down. Four days before Christmas, so the worst possible time ...

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