The State Of RISC-V For Debian 10 "Buster"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The State Of RISC-V For Debian 10 "Buster"

Debian's RISC-V support has been coming together but how's the state of affairs for the imminent Debian 10.0 "Buster" release?..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-10-Buster-RISC-V-State

[9Strike]

I'm quite impressed how fast they packed so many things. Hopefully we see some more RISC-V Hardware in the next years.

[schmidtbag]

I'm quite impressed how fast they packed so many things. Hopefully we see some more RISC-V Hardware in the next years.

I'm sure the vast majority of it is automated. I imagine they have a handful of systems just constantly churning out packages 24/7. I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the 10% of packages not ported to RISC-V can't be ported, either because they're still queued or because they're incompatible (like the whole LLVM thing mentioned in the article).

[Mani]

So is this RV64G, RV64GC or some completely different extension set?

[tuxd3v]

So is this RV64G, RV64GC or some completely different extension set?

Most likely its for the common denominator.( the weakest one.. )

I think the same happens with mips, which is compiled for mips32r2, even tough that mips32r5 it out there, in silicon, with powerful simd instructions..
It also happens for in x86/x86_64..

[Almindor]

So is this RV64G, RV64GC or some completely different extension set?

Going with RV64GC would probably be the most generic approach. Even hifive1 implements the C so I suspect anything more powerful will have that.

[silmeth]

So is this RV64G, RV64GC or some completely different extension set?

From: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V#Hardw...and_ABI_choice

The Debian port uses RV64GC as the hardware baseline and the lp64d ABI (the default ABI for RV64G systems).

Making the C extension a part of the default hardware baseline for general-purpose binary Linux distributions has been agreed upon between Fedora porters, Debian porters and members of the RISC-V foundation. According to the chairman of the board of the RISC-V foundation, the foundation will provide "a profile for standard RISC-V Unix platforms that will include C as mandatory".

[SolarNet]

Vagrant Cascadian has a pretty good description of the packages available and pending in his Latch-Up video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGeOaklWhUU

[waxhead]

Now all we need is a RISC-5'erry Phi or something like that and off we go