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They promise Linux support. What is the situation with Rust on RISC-V? Obviously for a couple of years you haven't been able to build a somewhat complete and modern distro without a Rust compiler. However, that wasn't available everywhere outside of x86 and arm64 at the same time (https://lwn.net/Articles/845535/). Has that been fully solved in the meantime?



My experience with our riscv build deamons in Debian is everything works, but there is some spurious segfaults from time to time.

Check the green build matrix on this page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=alexander.kjall%40...



Anyone familiar with debian can explain what these drops in percentages are?

E.g. arm64 dropped very low for a while or all arches dropped around 2024.68

https://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph-quarter.png


Not that familiar, but this is sid, which is where debian development happens.

If there's a huge drop, it is most of the time because a package a lot of software depends on got updated or modified (e.g. built with different options) and it caused ABI changes, thus causing rebuilds of everything that depends on it.


The Rust compiler has supported RISC-V64GC for many years already. I got my first RISC-V SBC in 2022 and have not found a single issue with the Rust compiler (some libraries have problems, but that's a different problem). In the end, the Rust compiler relies on LLVM, which also Clang users need it in order to compile C and C++ programs to RISC-V.


In the embedded space, rust works great for riscv on ESP chips




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