Re: RISC-V (riscv64-linux) substitutes are coming

[Christopher Baines]

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 02:40:21PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
>> Hey!
>>
>> Almost a year ago now [1] I mentioned that I had received a HiFive
>> Unmatched board, but I hadn't got it doing anything yet.
>>
>> 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-06/msg00104.html
>
> Some would say that's almost two years ago!

Indeed, I got my maths wrong! Time is really getting on :/

>> In the last few days I've made some time to take a look at it again and
>> try to get it connected up to the bordeaux build farm.
>>
>> This has been somewhat successful, you should be able to see the machine
>> (named rochor) on the prototype activity viewer [2].
>>
>> 2: https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/activity
>>
>> Unfortunately it seems a bit stuck trying to upload the build results
>> back to the coordinator due to the suspendable ports issues in
>> guile-gnutls, but that should be fixed in the latest release so
>> hopefully I'll be able to deploy that fix soon.
>>
>> It's also just currently a bare board hooked up to a spare power supply
>> I have. I'll try and cost up a dedicated power supply plus case for it,
>> and if anyone has suggestions for minimal mini-itx compatible cases,
>> please let me know!
>>
>> This is a start, but more hardware will be needed to keep up with the
>> master branch, plus testing patches and other branches, so if you have
>> hardware to hand, or know of hardware available for purchase that might
>> be suitable, that would be really useful to know about.
>
> That's really exciting!
>
> I've been having good luck with the visionfive1 as a build machine. My
> visionfive2 gets a little hot and I'm looking at getting a desk fan to
> blow at it and some of the other boards that get a bit hot while
> building.

Cool, well let me know if any of those can be hooked up to the build
farm. It's quite easy and obviously you can still use them (and just
stop the build coordinator agent) if you need to.

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature