Hello everyone! > Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > > Porting Guix comes with two parts: building the bootstrap-tarballs and > > adding support for the new architecture in (gnu packages bootstrap). > > Support for riscv was added to GCC with 7.1.0 so I had to bump the > > bootstrap GCC to 7 (and adjust some inputs), and guile-2.0.14 didn't > > known the endianness of riscv64 so instead of patching it I bumped the > > bootstrap guile to 3.0. I uploaded my bootstrap-tarballs to my regular > > spot after signing them and switched over to the riscv machine.
Do i understand correctly that the bootstrap-tarballs can be cross-compiled and tested (to some extent) in a qemu-system-riscv? Or does this *have* to fail (by Guix's design) due to it not being bootstrappable? On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 03:43:44PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > If the HiFive works fine, let me remind you that we have budget to buy > hardware, so we could just as well order a couple of these right away > (maybe you’ll have Guix System running by the time we receive them ;-)). > > What we need is someone to order the machine(s) and to host it > afterwards, with stable connectivity. This must be agreed upon by the > Spending Committee (currently Tobias, Ricardo, and myself; email > guix-fina...@gnu.org). You’ll then be reimbursed by the FSF, our > current fiscal sponsor. > > Any takers? Or should we wait until you have more experience with > yours, Efraim? I could see myself doing that. I've been thinking about getting a HiFive Unmatched for a while and getting the hardware makes working on it a bit more exciting! Do i understand correctly that this machine would then be used to build Guix packages and serve them? I.e. a worker on ci.guix.gnu.org? Have a nice week! gabriel
