About a month ago I posted about the state of the RISC-V architecture for Fedora: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/EYY4TFJTV66EAG322F3E6V6TA7I3RZAZ/ Quoting from that email: | 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 As noted in the earlier email the project was on a hiatus since the end of 2016, waiting for the RISC-V Foundation to commit to a stable Linux libc ABI for the architecture. Well, finally that has happened. glibc 2.27, due to be released on Thursday, will contain a stable RISC-V ABI allowing us to sanely develop a Linux distro. And thus the Fedora/RISC-V project is back in business. Next week we'll be starting the third (and final) bootstrap. You can follow the work at these links: https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-bootstrap https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V/Bootstrapping The approximate timelines (don't hold me to any of this) are: * mid-February: Stage 3 disk image. * end-March: Pristine, pure RPM-built stage 4 disk image, autobuilder picking up Fedora packages and building them. * Summer: Shadow-Koji instance, Fedora 28/Rawhide RPM hosting. You can already try out the interim (and very minimal and hacky) bbl-bootloader/kernel/stage 3 disk image: http://oirase.annexia.org/riscv/ Install the riscv-qemu package from: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rjones/riscv/ and then run: qemu-system-riscv64 \ -nographic \ -machine virt \ -m 2G \ -kernel bbl \ -append "console=ttyS0 ro root=/dev/vda init=/init" \ -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \ -drive file=stage3-disk.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \ -device virtio-net-device,netdev=usernet \ -netdev user,id=usernet I'll be at FOSDEM on Saturday if anyone is interested in Fedora and RISC-V. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
