Re: [cfarm-users] Stable RISC-V hosts in the farm

[Jing Luo via cfarm-users]

On 2024-07-26 14:10, Simon Josefsson via cfarm-users wrote:

Hi

Hi, surprised to see you here :)

Thanks for the riscv hosts!  I want to recommend a device that can be
used to build Trisquel's riscv binaries, but it has to work without

u-boot and near-upstream linux kernel, but does anyone know if this
device would also work with a blob-free u-boot and blob-free linux
kernel like linux-libre?

non-free blobs. In your announcement, you mention that you run upstream

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AFAIK Starfive Visionfive 2 doesn't require non-free blobs to boot. You should be able to build u-boot and linux-libre from source and they should just work. I bought such a board myself back in April, arrived in May, but I haven't got the time to test it. I should test it some time soon to determine if I can offer hosting to the farm. On the other hand, since cfarm93 runs Debian (sid or trixie??), which has a relatively clean kernel, if you have an account in the farm, you can ssh into cfarm93 to see if /lib/firmware exist. I don't have an account in the farm. But caveats apply: IMHO this board is quite under powered (comparing to amd64 or arm64), like most other RISCV boards, building deb packages or running buildd with jenkins for Trisquel will be slow, unless you plan to get a fleet of them.

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