Re: Porting Guix to RISCV

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Vagrant Cascadian writes:

Hey!

> On 2020-10-31, Pjotr Prins wrote:
>> Anyone interested in porting GNU Mes and GNU Guix to RISCV?

...trying not to get noticed, /me looks at their full plate (cough Mes +
ARM) and then slowly looks over shoulder...

>> We can try
>> and purchase the hardware. We have a Polarfire running
>>
>>   https://www.crowdsupply.com/microchip/polarfire-soc-icicle-kit
>>
>> and there are more options coming. I am happy to support such an
>> initiative and buy the hardware.
>
> I added a few RISC-V related packages to guix already:
>
>   u-boot-qemu-riscv64
>   u-boot-qemu-riscv64-smode
>   u-boot-sifive-fu540
>   opensbi-sifive-fu540
>   opensbi-qemu-sifive-u
>   linux-libre-riscv64-generic
>
> Got as far as booting a kernel in qemu, at least. So the basic boot
> infrastructure is at least partly there...
>
> So, I guess you could count me as interested. :)

Great!  Anyway, runing RISC-V on Guix (can I dream "the Hurd"?) is an
amazing perspective, so count me in!  Did anyone try building bootstrap
binaries for RISC-V?

Greetings,
Janneke

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