[gentoo-dev] Re: Announcing RISC-V

[Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 03 May 2019 23:34:40 +0200
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> after some preparations, we're happy to announce (initially experimental) 
> support for a new arch: riscv
> 
> * The project page is at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:RISC-V
>   Feel free to join if you want to help and/or even have hardware.
>   We also have a dedicated IRC channel, #gentoo-riscv
> 
> * The keyword is "~riscv"; no stable keyword will be used in the beginning.
> 
> * We will initially add two profiles to profile.desc: 
>   default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc/lp64d (non-multilib, 64bit hardfloat)
>   default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc (multilib lp64d/lp64, i.e. hard/softfloat)

Please fill out https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/RISC-V_Multilib
It's absolutely unclear what LIBDIR is supposed to be in multilib/non-multilib
case without looking at profiles.

> * Stage builds have been tested with an overlay and work fine.
>   I'll publish initial stage3 images soon and will work with releng to get
>   autobuilds running.
> 
> * Once this all is done I'll draft an announcement for the main web page.

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  Sergei