[Trisquel-devel] riscv64 for trisquel 12?

[Jing Luo]

Simon Josefsson Sun Mar 31 08:07:30 UTC 2024:
>>> While still a fairly experimental platform, I
>>> think that during the lifespan of trisquel 12 the riscv64 platform 
>>> may
>>> become an important target.  It would be nice to include riscv64
>>> packages from Ubuntu directly from the start when we import noble.
>> 
>> Ecne might be a great opportunity for it, definitely something to
>> discuss about next time the dev team meets.

As a user I'm excited to see more resources being used on developing on 
riscv64, that's a big "if", but debian 13 (trixie) will officially 
support riscv64.

>>> I have a Milk-V Pioneer box that I could give out a Debian VM on for
>>> porting.  These machines seems to be readily available in stock
>>> commercially, and I may be able to arrange a donation of one machine 
>>> to
>>> the Trisquel project if that would help things.
>> 
>> This would certainly help on the decision making process, as a hard
>> requirement is to have hardware to run the builds at.
> 
> Who would be best to send this machine to, who can install it and keep
> it running and setup jenkins etc on it and connect it to the build
> infrastructure?  I worry that this could be a distraction from other
> work, so I'm happy to offer a VM on my machine for this purpose, but
> that is fairly fragile and I wouldn't want the project to depend on
> there being power in my garage...  maybe best is both, to have to two
> riscv64 build machines available.

How about this: I can happily host it at my home in Tokyo for Trisquel 
project and help setup & manage etc., if Simon can arrange that 
donation, and, if trisquel devs all approve this at your next meeting. I 
have sysadmin experience on my own home servers so I hope this wouldn't 
add much burden to devs.

I have 10Gbps internet and a second ISP, and I already host a mirror for 
Trisquel since last year (listed on the website wiki but not in the 
Mirrors.masterlist). I recently donated (?) 3 VMs (amd64) to the gcc 
compile farm on my own hardware [1]. And - I recently bought a starfive 
visionfive 2 riscv sbc but haven't had the chance to install anything 
yet.

[1] https://portal.cfarm.net/news/49

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