Project:RISC-V

RISC-V CPU architecture support in Gentoo.]]

Status
Riscv64 stages are available via the normal Gentoo download page, and a set of packages in the Gentoo repository is keyworded. At the moment we have the following stages:
 * riscv64gc / lp64d, openrc
 * riscv64gc / lp64d, systemd
 * riscv64imac / lp64, openrc
 * riscv64imac / lp64, systemd

qemu-riscv can run riscv64 binaries just fine. This way one can also test in an emulated chroot.

What needs to be done
Things to happen yet:


 * Provide a bootable image.
 * Get riscv32 running somehow (fails due to bugs in qemu user mode emulation)

Keywording policy

 * ARCH=riscv is the assigned keyword.
 * No stable riscv keywords are planned for the moment.
 * For packages without obvious hardware aspect, qemu-user or qemu-system testing is sufficient for keywording ~riscv
 * Packages with hardware aspect (bootloader, drivers, ...) have to be tested on real hardware.
 * Multilib packages should get tested for both lp64d and lp64 ABI, for others lp64d is sufficient
 * When we get to stabilizations in the future, that will require testing on real hardware.

Documentation

 * TODO: Describe arch-specific gotchas (alignment requirements, immediate encodings, PIC story).
 * RISC-V ABIs
 * RISC-V Multilib
 * RISC-V Qemu setup
 * RISC-V hardware list

Links

 * outstanding riscv keyword requests