On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:03 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
