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

[Jing Luo]

On 2024-07-26 14:10, Simon Josefsson via cfarm-users wrote:
> Hi

Hi, surprised to see you here :)

> 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?

AFAIK Starfive Visionfive 2 doesn't require non-free blobs to boot. You 
should be able to build u-boot and linux-libre from source and they 
should just work. I bought such a board myself back in April, arrived in 
May, but I haven't got the time to test it. I should test it some time 
soon to determine if I can offer hosting to the farm. On the other hand, 
since cfarm93 runs Debian (sid or trixie??), which has a relatively 
clean kernel, if you have an account in the farm, you can ssh into 
cfarm93 to see if /lib/firmware exist. I don't have an account in the 
farm.

But caveats apply: IMHO this board is quite under powered (comparing to 
amd64 or arm64), like most other RISCV boards, building deb packages or 
running buildd with jenkins for Trisquel will be slow, unless you plan 
to get a fleet of them.

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Jing Luo
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