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The author states: >"I’m working on making this hardware available to builds.sr.ht users in the next few months, where I intend to use it to automate the remai

The author states: >"I’m working on making this hardware available to builds.sr.ht users in the next few months, where I intend to use it to automate the remainder of the Alpine Linux port and make it available to any other operating systems (including non-Linux) and userspace software which are interested in working on a RISC-V port." Is this author also the designer of the board? Or do they made they're working on making the software available? This looks really exciting, looking forward to following the progress.

SpaceManiac 8y ago
The author means making compute time on the hardware available to run CI builds on their service. If you care about porting your software to RISC-V enough to want to test that software there, hardware is probably a more accurate harness than qemu.
- qlk1123 8y ago
  Just a note here, actually Fedora/RISC-V are hosting their release builds on qemu.
  - rwmj 8y ago
    I'm not sure what this means, but we have 3 of these SiFive boards doing builds[1], as well as dozens of qemu instances running on Intel hardware supplied by Facebook. We use the SiFive boards for the largest builds however, things like GCC and the kernel, because they're still much better than qemu. [1] Or we were up to yesterday when we had a hardware failure (on an Intel machine) so our build system is currently down. Four days before Christmas, so the worst possible time ...
- IntelMiner 8y ago
  I'd love to see time being given to Gentoo. They're basically up there with Debian in terms of supporting "alternative" architectures According to the Handbook. They currently support Alpha, AMD64, ARM, ARM64 HPPA/PA-RISC, IA64, MIPS, PPC, PPC64, SPARC and x86 (i486 and i686)
  - als0 8y ago
    Beyond even. A while ago Debian dropped support for Alpha, IA64 and PA-RISC. Even SPARC isn't supported anymore. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en
    - wbl 8y ago
      You gotta love an arch that can reorder dependent reads.
      - bogomipz 8y ago
        Which arch permits reordering of dependent reads? Might you have any resources you could share? Thanks.

SpaceManiac 8y ago

The author means making compute time on the hardware available to run CI builds on their service. If you care about porting your software to RISC-V enough to want to test that software there, hardware is probably a more accurate harness than qemu.

qlk1123 8y ago
Just a note here, actually Fedora/RISC-V are hosting their release builds on qemu.
- rwmj 8y ago
  I'm not sure what this means, but we have 3 of these SiFive boards doing builds[1], as well as dozens of qemu instances running on Intel hardware supplied by Facebook. We use the SiFive boards for the largest builds however, things like GCC and the kernel, because they're still much better than qemu. [1] Or we were up to yesterday when we had a hardware failure (on an Intel machine) so our build system is currently down. Four days before Christmas, so the worst possible time ...
IntelMiner 8y ago
I'd love to see time being given to Gentoo. They're basically up there with Debian in terms of supporting "alternative" architectures According to the Handbook. They currently support Alpha, AMD64, ARM, ARM64 HPPA/PA-RISC, IA64, MIPS, PPC, PPC64, SPARC and x86 (i486 and i686)
- als0 8y ago
  Beyond even. A while ago Debian dropped support for Alpha, IA64 and PA-RISC. Even SPARC isn't supported anymore. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en
  - wbl 8y ago
    You gotta love an arch that can reorder dependent reads.
    - bogomipz 8y ago
      Which arch permits reordering of dependent reads? Might you have any resources you could share? Thanks.