Re: Porting Fedora for the LoongArch architecture.

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 11:13 PM 孙海勇 <sunhaiyong@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am Sun Haiyong, from China. I want to port Fedora for the LoongArch
> architecture.
> LoongArch is a RISC ISA released by Loongson Technology Corporation Limited,
> and has supported a series of (Binutils, GCC, Linux, Glibc, LLVM, QEMU,
> etc.)
> core open source projects.
>
> Currently, there are many linux distributions that can run on LoongArch
> machines,
> they are OpenEuler, OpenAnolis, UOS, Kylin.
>
> I am good at cross-compiling operating systems and often build Linux systems
> using something like LFS or CLFS.
>
> I have built Linux distributions using rpm package management from scratch
> several times since 2015 (some systems are not publicly available):
>
> 1 Fedora 21, 28, 32 based on MIPS64EL architecture;
> 2 CentOS 7 based on MIPS64EL architecture;
> 3 CentOS 7 based on Power8 architecture;
> 4 CentOS 8.3 based on LoongArch architecture;
> 5 OpenEuler 2109 based on LoongArch architecture.
>
> And I have published a book on porting Fedora systems to new architectures.
>
> I want to add LoongArch to the official Fedora support architecture, and
> I've
> been doing so for some time, here's some of what I've done so far:
>
> To verify the feasibility of building a LoongArch architecture branch for
> Fedora, I have used the software version from the rawhide git repository,
> and have now compiled a large number of base packages and built a temporary
> repository that can be accessed at https://mirrors.wsyu.edu.cn/fedora/
>
> I have compiled and generated more than 45,000 installable rpm files (of
> course there are a lot of perl, Python, rust and texlive files), and the
> number is still expanding, the scope of the package is enough to build a
> LiveCD system, for which I have built LXDE, MATE, WorkStation ( Gnome3) of
> the LiveCD and the installation of the ISO, you can get in the following
> address: https://github.com/fedora-remix-loongarch/releases-info
>
> Of course, there are still a lot of problems with LoongArch's Fedora system,
> for example, some software is not yet fully supported by the upstream
> community, but I believe the power of the community can gradually improve
> them, so I am sending out an email here to get more people to support this
> new LoongArch architecture.
>
> I have recruited some developers who are interested in this and they are:
>
> Wu Xiaotian
> Chen Huacai
> Shi Pujin
> Si Yanteng
> Chen Feiyang
>
> Of course, there are many other users who are interested in Fedora systems.
>
> I'm currently a newbie in the Fedora community, so I need help from
> community
> developers, and would like someone to guide me on what to do next, such as
> what would be a better time to submit necessary patches to packages in the
> Fedora repository, how to develop in a collaborative manner, what other
> systems to be used for management, etc. In short, any information would be
> useful. Could I get help here? :)
>
> Again, thanks for reading this email.

Hi, 海勇 and other LoongArch contributors!

I am a long-term Chinese Fedora packager. I also got interested in
LoongArch recently
and started to create some PRs[1][2] related to LoongArch.

Please feel free to reach out to me personally. I hope I can help you
from the Fedora side.

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cross-binutils/pull-request/2
[2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cross-gcc/pull-request/3
-robin
>
> Best Regards
> Sun Haiyong
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