Re: RISC-V -- are we ready for more, and what do we need to do it?

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On 06 Oct 2021 10:17, Justin Forbes wrote:
> 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

Not been merged?  Or just not turned on in the config?

-- 
ciao,
al
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Al Stone
Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.
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