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Indeed there're some challenging packages that we've made great efforts to port, and those efforts mainly happened at upstream level: adding RISC-V support for ldc, for chromium V8 (rv64 & rv32, both as joint efforts, great thanks to my college luyahan), for lldb-server (WIP), and crystal (WIP), etc.

As soon as upstreams accept our PRs, all distros with RISC-V port can benifit from them, which IMO sounds like a better porting style than keeping a huge patch in downstream Arch-specific repo :-D

BTW we also have an CI/CD available for upstream opensource developers to monitor their builds: https://ci.rvperf.org




Indeed, Chromium was one of the hard ones. Thanks again for your efforts.

What is "ldc"?

I'll keep an eye on https://archriscv.felixc.at/ and try out the current rootfs.


Glad to hear that you'd like to try! You can report issues at https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages

ldc refers to the LLVM-based D Compiler: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc


It would great if your page could include instructions for how to try this (Ubuntu does this very well - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RISC-V) or at least a pointer to steps to follow, thanks.


Sorry for the late response. Actually there're some useful guides inside the repo's wiki (ugh I should have mentioned them in the first place).

I think you can start from here: https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages/wiki/Setup...


Still here :) Thanks for the follow up, I’ll try again.




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