Monday, July 20, 2020

Updated Gentoo RISC-V stages

I finally got around to updating the experimental riscv stages. You can find the result on our webserver. All stages use the rv64gc instruction set; there is a multilib stage with both lp64 and lp64d support, and there are non-multilib stages for both lp64 and lp64d ABI. Please test, and report bugs if anything doesn't work.
As for the technical details, the stages are built using qemu-user on a big and beefy Gentoo amd64 AWS instance. We are currently working on automating that process, such that riscv (and potentially also arm and others) get the same level of support as amd64 and friends. Thanks a lot to Amazon for the credits via their open source promotial program!

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