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How do they get access to the source code? I read some time ago that RH has changed how they provided the source code and that it was (almost) impossible to get
by kwanbix 1y ago
How do they get access to the source code? I read some time ago that RH has changed how they provided the source code and that it was (almost) impossible to get it now?
- rwmj 1y agoI don't know where you heard that? The source code for Red Hat's RISC-V developer preview will be released alongside the binaries, on 1st June. However almost all of it is already in CentOS Stream 10 and you can browse it here: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream There are a few patched packages (and quite a large kernel patch), which is what we'll be releasing into a separate git repo when the developer preview is actually released.
- kwanbix 1y agoI mean in general, you can read it here for example: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/oracle_ibm_rhel_code/#:~:text=Last%20month%2C%20Red%20Hat%20said,%2C%20EuroLinux%2C%20and%20Oracle%20Linux. https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/oracle_ibm_rhel_code/...
- rwmj 1y agoYeah I wouldn't believe what Oracle say, they're hardly a disinterested party here. You can go and grab the source for CS10 which is almost exactly RHEL 10 from the link I posted above, and RHEL 10 sources are distributed to our customers.
- nhanlon 1y agoWe've been building the RISC-V port from a combination of Fedora and CentOS Stream sources--the same as the core operating system--since early 2024. A lot of RISC-V support was already in F40 (which EL10 is cut from), so the rest was largely backporting and integrating into RHEL, which again, we've been tracking since CentOS Stream 10 was branched from Fedora last year.