Debian GNU/Linux Port for RISC-V 64-bit
summary
Debian adds a 64-bit RISC-V port that bootstraps from a cross-compiled seed and is imported into Debian infrastructure, targeting RV64GC baseline with Linux + glibc + GCC as the canonical toolchain. Work starts in 2014, resumes after glibc/ABI stabilization, and now builds about 80% of architecture-dependent packages (roughly 10,000) plus many arch-independent packages. It runs natively under QEMU and on a HiFive Unleashed board, supports servers, desktops and large science packages; notable gaps are Firefox/Chromium (Rust/LLVM) and OpenJDK hotspot.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:11Outline
- 1:14Why a Debian Port for RISC-V? (1)
- 2:06Why a Debian Port for RISC-V? (1 bis)
- 3:08What is Debian? (1)
- 4:21What is Debian? (2)
- 4:56What is a Debian Port? (1)
- 5:50What is a Debian Port? (3)
- 7:51What is a Debian Port? (5)
- 8:53What is a Debian Port? (6)
- 9:21The Plan (1)
- 10:15The Plan: Hardware decisions (3)
- 11:40History: First Bootstrap (2)
- 13:57History: Second Bootstrap (1)
- 15:41Current status in a single graph
- 19:34and what are the benefits (1)
- 20:09and what are the benefits (2)
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