Hi all,
as you may have noticed, SUSE logo now appears among RISC-V
International Members at https://riscv.org/members/.
One aspect of this membership is that SUSE can ask for RISC-V
development boards that are offered by hardware members, and SUSE has
also requested some on behalf of the openSUSE project. The deadline was
a bit too tight this time, so a small group (Darren, Matthias, Andreas
and myself) made our best guess at what would be useful. FYI this has
been requested specifically for openSUSE:
Beagle 8B: 4pc
D1 2G: 2pc
Polarfire 2GB: 3pc
Unmatched 16G: 4pc
Ant 8G: 2pc
Ant enclosure: 2pc
picoRIOS: 4pc
When (and if) these development boards arrive, they should become
available to openSUSE developers for ... well, distribution development,
of course. ;-) Until then, we can continue testing with our Beagle V's
and emulators.
Cheers,
Petr T
Hi Cristian,
Dne 09. 07. 21 v 16:35 Cristian Rodríguez napsal(a):
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 10:01 AM Petr Tesařík <ptesarik(a)suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as you may have noticed, a bunch of my colleagues have invested their
>> time into porting openSUSE to the RISC-V platform.
>
> Is real-world hardware available and native toolchains ?
Are you talking about real-world hardware in general, or real hardware
available to the openSUSE project?
In general, hardware is of course available from multiple manufacturers
(StarFive, SiFive, Allwinner, Microchip), although AFAICS only StarFive
JH7110 can be easily obtained, just go get a BeagleV.
If you're talking about availability to the openSUSE project, then
that's not yet available. We're currently building all packages in QEMU
user emulation.
> I am aware
> intel will mass produce RISC-V SOC in the upcoming years but what is
> happening right now?
I cannot really comment on Intel's plans, sorry.
> I am interested on this If I get to seriously believe it is ever going
> to hit the server market beyond a few mighty cloud providers..
You've probably heard all the pros of RISC-V, so I won't repeat them
here. Most importantly, I believe that openSUSE should not miss the
opportunity. Other Linux distributions already have a RISC-V port:
https://wiki.riscv.org/display/TECH/Operating+Systems
HTH,
Petr T
