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> That doesn’t imply end users of niche architectures are supposed to lose their favorite apps. In this case it does, for everyone out there on a RISC-V system
by slondr 4y ago
> That doesn’t imply end users of niche architectures are supposed to lose their favorite apps.
In this case it does, for everyone out there on a RISC-V system who wants to use one of the over 400,000 programs which depend on cryptography.
- Hackbraten 4y agoFirstly, unless I’m missing something, RISC-V seems to be on Rust’s Tier 2 with Host Tools, which is still way high up in Rust’s support pyramid. Secondly, let’s assume – in favor of your argument – that for some reason, it’s still not working for RISC-V users. Then what keeps them from volunteering their time, labor, or money, and help make the thing fly and keep it that way? Niche or single-purpose distributions (such as Arch Linux ARM or AmberElec) have been doing just that anyway: those people regularly maintain special patches in order to support their specific target anyway, no matter whether the upstream projects are even interested in their platform, or whether they’re accepting their patches.