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Re: RVA22 or RVA23? Discussing RVA ISA Baselines in Debian



Hi,

On 2025-07-14 14:51, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jul 14, Yunseong Kim <ysk@kzalloc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Will Debian continue to target a broader baseline like RVA22 to retain
> > compatibility with older hardware, even at the cost of some performance
> > optimizations?
> > 
> > Or is there an ongoing discussion about moving toward RVA23 as well, to align
> > with upstream toolchains and OS ecosystems?
> Not at this time, but there is no hurry since we are going to release Debian
> 13 this summer.
> 
> Maybe we can start this discussion next year, when hopefully it will be more
> clear how much RVA23-capable hardware will actually be available.

Yes, I think it's way too early to decide about bumping the baseline for 
now. We also need to remember we need hardware, but also have it 
supported by the Debian and thus by the upstream kernel.

Then we need to see what boards are available and supported around the 
forky release, we can't just drop support for popular boards, if there 
is no cheap equivalent available.

Regards
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
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