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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RISCV porting effort
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:07:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8cc3vip.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YMIRqvNSP/NzehWs@3900XT> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:20:42 +0300")

Hello!

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> 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 ;-)).
>
> On one hand they seem similar to some of our aarch64 boards (but with
> 16GB of RAM), on the other hand it'd be a coup to announce serious
> support for the platform so quickly.

I’m not saying we should announce anything, but rather that we get ready
for when the port is functional (especially if there’s typically 6
months between ordering and shipping).

> I had to pay import tax when I received mine, and I assume those in
> Europe did too, so I'd recommend they be hosted in the US since IIRC
> they're shipping from Texas. It might be nice to wait until we have it
> working for sure, but the lead time is still expected to be 6 months
> between ordering and shipping dates.

OK.  I don’t doubt “working for sure” will eventually happen; I wouldn’t
be surprised if it takes less than 6 months even.  :-)

(I’m not talking about the reduced bootstrap seeds, just the gross
bootstrap as currently done on ARM.)

> I suppose if something else comes along that's faster we could always
> cancel an order and switch to that.
>
> I have mine sitting in a mini-ITX case, using a libre-respecting NVIDIA
> card. Definitely a more serious board than the aarch64 boards I've
> bought in the past.

Good!

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-11 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-07  7:09 RISCV porting effort Efraim Flashner
2021-06-07 15:37 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2021-06-08 13:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-08 22:28   ` Gabriel Wicki
2021-06-10 13:22     ` Efraim Flashner
2021-06-11 21:07     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-06-10 13:20   ` Efraim Flashner
2021-06-11 22:07     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-06-18 13:05     ` RISCV porting effort (now in stock @mouser) Gabriel Wicki
2021-06-11 11:16 ` RISCV porting effort Efraim Flashner
2021-06-13 17:24 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-06-14  7:27   ` Efraim Flashner
2021-06-15  1:00     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2021-06-15 12:37       ` Efraim Flashner
2021-06-13 21:21 ` Christopher Baines
2021-06-20 15:37   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-16  1:46     ` Pjotr Prins
2022-06-16 18:12       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-17 16:08       ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-17 22:52         ` Pjotr Prins
2022-06-20  7:45           ` Pjotr Prins
2022-06-22 13:37             ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-22 15:19               ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2022-06-28  8:54                 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-30 12:01                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-03  9:07                     ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-24  6:37               ` Pjotr Prins

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