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Re: Bug#1034756: dpkg: please add support for riscv32



On 2023-04-25, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 23:20:01 +0800, Bo YU wrote:
>> Currently riscv32 has been supported upstream for a while[0] and people
>> can setup a riscv32 qemu with yocto[1], but it is time consuming.
>> There is no distro to support riscv32 AFAIK until now however I think
>> this will benefits users who want to setup riscv32 rootfs quickly if we
>> support this.
...
> I think at the time when we added riscv64 we didn't also add riscv32
> because it was not clear whether there was then interest or demand,
> and I don't recall whether there were concerns about what ISA baseline
> to choose? (But I guess this would use the default baseline specified
> currently by the compiler.)

FWIW, when I gave a short talk about Debian's riscv64 port a few years
ago almost all the questions from the audience basically came down to
"when are you going to do a riscv32 port?" ... I suspect it was at least
partly because it is much easier to implement a riscv32 core in FPGA
that riscv64.

So there is *some* interest, even if a bit niche, though the landscape
maybe has changed a bit since 2019 with more riscv64 silicon available?

live well,
  vagrant

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