Re: I am currently porting Trisquel to RISC-V.
Very cool! I have a RISC-V computer! Would prefer Trisquel on ot.
----
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
On Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 at 12:14 AM, name at domain <name at domain> wrote:
> Hello everyone, I am Junjiang Zhuang from WUMOE LLC, and I am currently
> porting Trisquel to RISC-V. Currently, it can run on mmdebstrap and the repo
> is https://mirrors.wumoe.org/trisquel/ May I ask if the community can accept
> it in the later stage? Thank you all for bothering me.
Someone would still have to develop the packages for risc-v though.
While possible, I don't think there is a lot of risc-v hardware yet to justify this. But probe me wrong whomever if you know otherwise!
I would love to be wrong here.
I am not super knowledgeable about this but am commenting because I worry that @davidpgil might become discouraged by @Psion's comments. I do not think that @Psion is deliberately trying to discourage @davidpgil, but I think his comments need to be put in perspective.
First to correct @davidpgil's English: He wrote "thank you all for bothering me". What he should have written in proper English is "Thank you all for allowing me to bother you", to which I respond that "It is no bother, what you wrote was extremely interesting."
@Psion wrote: "Someone would still have to develop the packages for risc-v though." Did @Psion check @davidpgil's Contents-riscv64 file to see how many apps he apparently has already developed? Surely @Psion does not mean that @davidpgil needs to convert every app ever written to riscv64. If, in fact, all the apps listed in the Contents file work, that should encourage a lot of people besides him to work to convert other apps so that Trisquel can be extended to the risc-v architecture, even if that requires more than a single key-stroke to do so.
As I said, I do not think @Psion is trying to be discouraging, so I hope I do not seem to be criticizing him. I am trying to encourage @davidpgil and hope those more knowledgeable than I about what has been accomplished and what remains to be done also will contribute to this thread. It would be magnificent if more computers were available to believers in libre-software.
Yeah, I wasn't saying he shouldn't try to port to risc-v, fact of the matter is, risc-v might be very useful down the road. Is it premature to do it now? Idk... but that's not what matters. If he's up to the task, he should go ahead and do it.
I just wondered, which packages risc-v supports as of now for and also how many he could handle at a time.
It might be easier then I think for all I know given its an open architecture.
"I just wondered, which packages risc-v supports as of now"
Probably everything. GCC and Binutils have full support for RISC-V, and the kernel named Linux stopped requiring out of tree patches to run on RISC-V since version 4.19. Further, Ubuntu supports RISC-V as of version 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu). It's possible to see Ubuntu running on RISC-V here: https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=bgNPx3w0KRg
Oh, that's more than I thought.
Is there a stable release for debian then that also supports risc-v? Just a curiosity of mine.
RISC-V became officially supported by Debian in July of last year.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html
That's too late for the current stable release of Debian 12 Bookworm but there's always the next one, Debian 13 Trixie.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-riscv/2023/07/msg00053.html announced "riscv64 is now an official architecture", but I am not sure it means the next Debian stable will have ISOs for RISC-V.
Yeah, I was curious about this exactly. If Risc-V is supported by debian as of current stable release or next.
So there is no clear answer yet?
I wonder if its supported by testing release yet though also.
I know unstable is risc-v supported for a fact, but beyond that, no.