Re: RISC-V (riscv64-linux) substitutes are coming

[Efraim Flashner]

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 02:40:21PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> Almost a year ago now [1] I mentioned that I had received a HiFive
> Unmatched board, but I hadn't got it doing anything yet.
> 
> 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-06/msg00104.html

Some would say that's almost two years ago!

> In the last few days I've made some time to take a look at it again and
> try to get it connected up to the bordeaux build farm.
> 
> This has been somewhat successful, you should be able to see the machine
> (named rochor) on the prototype activity viewer [2].
> 
> 2: https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/activity
> 
> Unfortunately it seems a bit stuck trying to upload the build results
> back to the coordinator due to the suspendable ports issues in
> guile-gnutls, but that should be fixed in the latest release so
> hopefully I'll be able to deploy that fix soon.
> 
> It's also just currently a bare board hooked up to a spare power supply
> I have. I'll try and cost up a dedicated power supply plus case for it,
> and if anyone has suggestions for minimal mini-itx compatible cases,
> please let me know!
> 
> This is a start, but more hardware will be needed to keep up with the
> master branch, plus testing patches and other branches, so if you have
> hardware to hand, or know of hardware available for purchase that might
> be suitable, that would be really useful to know about.

That's really exciting!

I've been having good luck with the visionfive1 as a build machine. My
visionfive2 gets a little hot and I'm looking at getting a desk fan to
blow at it and some of the other boards that get a bit hot while
building.

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