Re: Kernel and d-i status update, u-boot for riscv64

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>]

Hi, Karsten.

2018年10月17日(水) 14:53 Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>:
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 08:53:56AM +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:
>
> > BTW, as I read your email, I understood that the riscv team is working
> > towards the buster 's official support architecture.
> > Is my understanding correct?
>
> Hello,
>
> riscv64 won't become a release architecture for buster.  There
> are still a lot of things missing that are required for meeting
> the release architecture criteria.  The first step on a way to
> becoming a release architecture would be having all packages in
> the unstable suite and getting rid of unreleased, and that will
> still take some time.  We are also unfortunately missing upstream
> support for riscv64 in LLVM which causes us quite a headache as
> qt has moved to requiring LLVM for certain components in recent
> releases, and qt has an enormous chain of reverse-dependencies.
>
> Besides the software side, DSA has declared that they are only
> going to accept architectures as release architecture that have
> server-grade hardware with out-of-band management facilities
> available on the market for DSA-maintained buildds. There is
> no such hardware on the market for riscv64 yet, though.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I understood very well.
I will participate in RISC-V day in Tokyo to be held today so I will
ask about hardware side.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro



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