Re: Porting Guix to RISCV

[Tobias Platen]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:52:19 -0700
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:

> On 2020-10-31, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > Anyone interested in porting GNU Mes and GNU Guix to RISCV? 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. :)
> 
> 
> live well,
>   vagrant
The libre-soc also supports riscv userspace, but its primary architectrue is 
the POWER ISA.
Therefore I propose to port guix to the POWER architecture too. 

Tobias

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Tobias Platen <guix@platen-software.de>