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Re: Debian on riscv board



Hi,

Il 09/10/19 07:07, Billa Surendra ha scritto:
> I am Billa, I am working in riscv micro processor design project.
> Recently I have joined in this project. I want to know how to run Debian
> on riscv board which is designed without compressed instruction support.
> Please give me details step by step process how to compile and run on
> riscv board.

I don't think you can do that for the moment. Debian's riscv64 port uses
compressed instructions, so it needs a CPU supporting compressed
instructions. There is no reason why Debian could not have in the future
a non-compressed port, but this is currently not the case. Sorry!

(maybe it's not even that complicated to devise a non-compressed port
having already a compressed one available: in line of principle you
could just recompile each package disabling the generation of compressed
instructions, and you wouldn't have to bootstrap again; still not a
weekend project, and who knows the bugs that it would expose... I am
definitely not able to advise you on how to implement that!)

Giovanni.
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Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascellani@gmail.com>
Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles

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