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The Mars isn't for sale yet, so you probably have a little time to prepare... I will be curious to see if most packages will be available for the architecture,

The Mars isn't for sale yet, so you probably have a little time to prepare... I will be curious to see if most packages will be available for the architecture, I could imagine having to compile some things (slowly).

sylware 3y ago
Well, at first I would have to go thru a compiler, but ultimately, risc-v should be an assembly code sanctuary since it will probably become the worldwide, royalty-free, open and standard ISA.
RobotToaster 3y ago
There's always gentoo I suppose?
brucehoult 3y ago
"Most packages" are completely interchangeable between all RISC-V RV64GC boards running the same OS version (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS), not to mention the four (so far) using the JH7110 SoC.
snvzz 3y ago
>most packages Over two years ago, 95% of Debian (largest Linux distribution in packages) already built for RISC-V. The last significant exception I was aware of (dotnet) finally merged RISC-V support earlier this year.
- brucehoult 3y ago
  There are quite a few things that have their own JIT / code generator instead of using the gcc or llvm infrastructure that has worked for years. New ISAs is always the downside of doing your own code generation. Dotnet doesn't yet have a RISC-V JIT. Samsung are currently doing that. A couple of months ago they had it to the point of a command line Hello World working, but there's still probably a 1-year project for a team to finish everything to production quality. There was a message from the maintainer this week that Luajit is getting close to being usable. Java JVM has worked for a long time but without JIT. I think that is also being worked on but I'm not sure the status. There was a blog post this week with the status of Box64 on RISC-V with some benchmark results. It seems to be basically fairly complete but not yet polished.

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The Mars isn't for sale yet, so you probably have a little time to prepare... I will be curious to see if most packages will be available for the architecture,

by blacksmith_tb 3y ago

sylware 3y ago
Well, at first I would have to go thru a compiler, but ultimately, risc-v should be an assembly code sanctuary since it will probably become the worldwide, royalty-free, open and standard ISA.
RobotToaster 3y ago
There's always gentoo I suppose?
brucehoult 3y ago
"Most packages" are completely interchangeable between all RISC-V RV64GC boards running the same OS version (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS), not to mention the four (so far) using the JH7110 SoC.
snvzz 3y ago
>most packages Over two years ago, 95% of Debian (largest Linux distribution in packages) already built for RISC-V. The last significant exception I was aware of (dotnet) finally merged RISC-V support earlier this year.
- brucehoult 3y ago
  There are quite a few things that have their own JIT / code generator instead of using the gcc or llvm infrastructure that has worked for years. New ISAs is always the downside of doing your own code generation. Dotnet doesn't yet have a RISC-V JIT. Samsung are currently doing that. A couple of months ago they had it to the point of a command line Hello World working, but there's still probably a 1-year project for a team to finish everything to production quality. There was a message from the maintainer this week that Luajit is getting close to being usable. Java JVM has worked for a long time but without JIT. I think that is also being worked on but I'm not sure the status. There was a blog post this week with the status of Box64 on RISC-V with some benchmark results. It seems to be basically fairly complete but not yet polished.