Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:36:37 -0500 (CDT)
From: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
To: Roman Shaposhnik <roman@zededa.com>
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Subject: Re: Plan for RISCV64 in Alpine 3.15
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Hi,

On Sun, 27 Jun 2021, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:

> Hi!
>
> so first of all -- thank you all for taking RISCV forward
> while I was traveling -- much appreciated! I see that
> we now have a builder that produces packages and they
> are actually getting deposited at the usual places. E.g.:
>    https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main/riscv64/
>
> Given that, here's my first few infrastructure related questions:
>  1. what does it take for edge packages to show up on:
>         https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages ?
>  2. in general, do we produce the final consumable aritfacts
>      for the Edge builds? Things like:
>             https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/
>
> With that out of the way, personally, I'm going to spend this
> coming week making sure that:
>    * bootstrap.sh is back to functional
>    * we get to produce at least the following artifacts:
>          * MINI ROOT FILESYSTEM
>          * VIRTUAL
>    * see if we can get rid of !tests on builders and selectively
>      disable tests in those packages that just need it.

The problem is that building with tests enabled under qemu is really slow. 
It would be nice if we can find some actually decent (at least 16 cores) 
builder for riscv64.

The chip made by Alibaba looks promising.  I wonder if we can source a 
board with it, somehow?

> Now, the last question I have is this: what would be the criteria
> for the # of packages or anything else to officially release RISCV64
> as part of Alpine 3.15?

I'm not comfortable having riscv64 as a release architecture until we are 
building on real silicon, but if the qemu stuff proves to be otherwise 
solid, then I guess that's fine too if we have real QA happening on real 
boards.

Ariadne