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Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port -- Sponsors and Build machines
In previous posts about the riscv64
port there were mentions about history,
progress and other details, but in this one I want to address the topic of
sponsors and build machines, which even if there are mentions from time to time
(e.g. in talks and slides posted here), it has not been covered in a
comprehensive manner.
And it's only fair that we acknowledge people …
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Talk about the Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port at RISC-V workshop
About a month ago I attended the RISC-V workshop (conference, congress)
co-organised by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
There I presented a talk with the (unimaginative) name of “Debian GNU/Linux
Port for RISC-V 64-bit”, talking about the same topic as many other posts of
this blog.
There are 2-3 such RISC-V Workshop events per year, one somewhere in Silicon …
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Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V 64-bit (riscv64) in Debian infrastructure (debian-ports)
tl;dr: We have a new port for RISC-V,
flavour riscv64
(64-bits little-endian) in Debian
Ports.
And it's doing well.
Debian-Ports 2-week Graph, 2018-03-31

(PS: Despite the date still in some timezones... no, this is not an
April-Fools-day type of post :-) ).
Ancient History
Almost a year ago I wrote a post announcing the availability of a Debian
GNU/Linux port for RISC-V 64-bit
(riscv64).
At the …
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Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V 64-bit (riscv64)
This is a post describing my involvement with the Debian GNU/Linux port for
RISC-V (unofficial and not endorsed by Debian
at the moment) and announcing the availability of the repository (still very
much WIP) with packages built for this architecture.
If not interested in the story but you want to check the repository, just jump to the bottom.
Roots
A while ago, mostly during 2014 …
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