I thought I'd be interesting to say something about Fedora on RISC-V to a wider audience ... and there's some news too. First the basics: RISC-V is a free and open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). You can read more about it on the RISC-V Foundation's website here: https://riscv.org/ Fedora/RISC-V is a project to port Fedora to RISC-V. Actual, real 64-bit RISC-V hardware you can buy is going to be released in Q1 2018 (it's already sampling to a few lucky developers), and I want Fedora to be the first choice to run on that hardware. The Fedora/RISC-V project web pages are here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V We started this back in September 2016 but it's been on a bit of a hiatus partly because of lack of hardware but mainly because the ABIs between userland and the kernel were not stable. They still aren't stable, but there's some hope that glibc changes will go upstream[1] in February (glibc 2.27), meaning that the final ABI will be nailed down and we can reasonably develop a Linux distro on top. In anticipation of glibc finally providing a stable ABI I've been bootstrapping Fedora/RISC-V from scratch a second time. You can read the status of that effort here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V/Bootstrapping https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-bootstrap TL;DR there's a working stage 3 disk image which I'm using to build the stage 4 RPMs. We'll need to do a third and final bootstrap after the glibc changes go upstream, so this second bootstrap is just for practice. Rich. [1] Latest glibc patches for review: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-12/msg00706.html -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
