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From: Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:58:22 +0000
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Alpine Linux on RISC-V
To: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 03:36, Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> wrote:
> - Is there interest in a riscv32 port? I don't have any 32-bit hardware,
>   but I'm trying to be as generic as I can in my approach to minimize
>   this work later.

Probably not at present, all the 32 bit hardware is microcontrollers, while
only 64 bit hardware runs Linux. There is no 32 bit support on 64 bit hardware
and this seems unlikely to change, so it seems unlikely to be worth supporting
32 bit in the foreseeable future.


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