[cfarm-users] Stable RISC-V hosts in the farm

[Simon Josefsson]

Hi

Thanks for the riscv hosts!  I want to recommend a device that can be
used to build Trisquel's riscv binaries, but it has to work without
non-free blobs.  In your announcement, you mention that you run upstream
u-boot and near-upstream linux kernel, but does anyone know if this
device would also work with a blob-free u-boot and blob-free linux
kernel like linux-libre?

/Simon

> We are very happy to announce the immediate availability of two new RISC-V hosts: cfarm93 running upstream Debian, and cfarm94 running
> upstream Alpine Linux. Both hosts are StarFive VisionFive 2 boards, which is currently the RISC-V hardware with the best balance of upstream
> software support and performance. We use a fully upstream version of u-boot as well as a near-upstream Linux kernel: the only addition to the
> upstream kernel are PCIe patches that are pending upstream integration, so that we can use a NVMe drive on the boards.
>
> The hardware was sponsored by RISC-V International, while NVMe drives and hosting are provided by tetaneutral.net. Many thanks to both
> organizations for their support.
>
> The farm already provides experimental RISC-V hosts since July 2022: cfarm91 (VisionFive 1) and cfarm92 (HiFive Unmatched). However, they
> clearly provide much less performance than the new boards, and their hardware is no longer produced. We will keep these old hosts online on a
> best-effort basis while the hardware is working, but without much expectations (e.g. without OS upgrades).
>
> Link
>
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