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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 07-May-2018 14:38:02 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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   @vertigo @linuxsocist @h @jjg HPC eh? I guess this is where I should jump in and provide information about Nix status for RISC-V. :-)
   
   *surf surf*
   
   Apparently GitHub now has projects!
   
   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/projects/15 is the riscv project for nixpkgs.
   
   Done:
   
   > Cross-compiled riscv64 kernel
   > RISC-V cross-compilation toolchain
   > Initial cross-compilation support for RISC-V
   > Build riscv qemu port
   
   So not done yet as a native platform, I guess? But shlevy (who made all of the above) seems to be working hard on making RISC-V working. I've seen traces of their work here and there in nixpkgs, as they de-x86-ify and remove other assumptions from various packages and package infrastructure.
   • h@social.coop's status on Saturday, 05-May-2018 05:29:47 UTC h

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     Microsemi announced a “HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board” built on its PolarFire FPGA that adds PCIe and USB expansion for the RISC-V-based, Linux driven HiFive Unleashed SBC.

     http://linuxgizmos.com/fpga-based-add-on-board-brings-pcie-to-the-first-linux-based-risc-v-sbc/

     cc: @vertigo @jjg @LinuxSocist
     #microsemi #pcie #fpga #hifive #riscv #sbc #linux

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   • jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 07-May-2018 00:33:08 UTC jjg

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     @h @LinuxSocist @vertigo is love to have one of those #hifive to play with :)

     Aside from that, I need to figure out how much FPGA I need to synthesize a Linux-capable RISC-V core.

     I want to start making a RISC-V compute module for #rain one way or another 😁

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   • Vertigo (vertigo@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-May-2018 00:43:04 UTC Vertigo

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     @jjg @LinuxSocist @h Artix 7 series, or Zynq 7 series chips are known to work, iirc.

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 07-May-2018 14:39:44 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @linuxsocist @vertigo @h @jjg Sounds like https://github.com/shlevy/nixos-riscv-bootstrap is even able to get a NixOS VM image that runs busybox in a RISC-V qemu system.