riscv, was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Arch Status and Future Plans

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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> ======== riscv ========
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> Dev arch. I don't have much info on it, but I heard some mess with
> riscv32 and riscv64, so maybe time to split it? I leave it to riscv arch
> team, which works quite well, but I'll be happy to open discussion for it.

riscv is something new and growing, but for now hardware is still quite slow.
We do not have any hardware devbox so far.

In its very beginning I proposed to use different keywords for 32bit and 64bit
(if not for that, for what then???), but enthusiasm was limited.
** Reminder, people actually have to do the keywording and maybe stabilization,
and more keywords means more work. **

If we split it, then please let's keep riscv for 64bit and e.g. use riscv32 
and one day in the futre riscv128 for the other variants...

Also, this is a potential candidate for a future stable arch (i.e. having stable
keywords and stabilization).

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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