Re: You can now run Fedora 27 on 64 bit RISC-V machines (or qemu)

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On 04/05/2018 03:31 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I'm sure not many people have RISC-V machines cluttering their homes
> and offices, but in case you can now run Fedora 27 on 64 bit RISC-V (RV64GC).
> 
> We have:
> 
>  - A choice of GCC 7.3.1 or GCC 8
>  - Perl, Python, Ruby, Erlang, OCaml, Lua, Tcl/Tk, ...
>  - vi, emacs, git, rpm-build, etc.
>  - PostgreSQL and MariaDB.
>  - TeXlive.
>  - Most of X11, Wayland and the basics of GNOME.
>  - A few games (quake2!)
> 
> A practical solution is to run it under qemu.  The disk images:
> 
>   https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/disk-images/
> 
> will run on qemu >= 2.12.0-0.2.rc0.fc29 or compiled from git on any(?)
> host architecture.  Please read the readme.txt file at the above link
> first as it tells you how to run it.
> 
> We also have limited support for the HiFive Unleashed U540 quad core
> board although these have extremely limited availability and the price
> will be well out of range for most people:
> 
>   https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2018/04/04/hifive-unleashed-booting/
>   https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed
> 
> I wrote a couple of articles for LWN about the bootstrapping process:
> 
>   https://lwn.net/Articles/749185/
>   https://lwn.net/Articles/749443/
> 
> Rich.
> 

Nice articles, btw.  And very cool.  Gives me something shiny and new to
play with over the weekend :)...

Thanks for all the work!

-- 
ciao,
al
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Red Hat, Inc.
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