Sunday, January 31, 2021

New Gentoo riscv (and arm) stages

With the help of our infrastructure team, I've finally managed to integrate the riscv stage builds with our signing and mirroring system. So now we have a riscv tab on the installation media download page, and the mirrors carry weekly signed stage3 archives for riscv64-lp64d and riscv64-lp64, in both openrc and systemd variants.

Using the same build infrastructure based on qemu, there are now also slowly updated stages for all arm variants coming to the mirrors. Please test them, and if anything does not work as expected, file bugs! The qemu-based builds are here a temporary measure; Matt Turner (mattst88) is preparing a fast multi-core arm64 machine, where this task will move to soon.

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