Re: RISC-V Support for GNUstep

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Lars,

I think besides objc-compiler support there is nothing special needed for RISC V (or other processor architectures like i386, arm, mips, ppc).

If you look at

https://packages.debian.org/sid/gnustep-base-runtime

https://packages.debian.org/sid/libgnustep-base1.27

you will see that there is experimental riscv64 support in Debian Sid, e.g. compiled binary libs:

https://packages.debian.org/sid/riscv64/libgnustep-base1.27/filelist

So IMHO there is no gap or anything special to do. Like for most other user-space code (unless you want to use architecture specific features like vector instruction sets).

What I can't judge is how buggy basic objective c support is.

Best regards,

Nikolaus

Am 07.10.2021 um 19:19 schrieb lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de:

Hi David,

well, I didn’t consider if you (and others) are aware of RISC-V. Therefore I post some basic, introductory links regarding RISC-V FYI now:

https://riscv.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

kind regards,

Lars

Am 07.10.2021 um 19:09 schrieb David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>:

Hi!

Did I miss something regarding risc?

I thought many companies are now looking to go to ARM?

Also on their servers. 

Cheers,

David

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 2021-10-07 um 12:53 schrieb lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de:

Hi fellow GNUsteppers,

I am thinking about purchasing a HiFive Unmatched https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched board for helping to port GNUstep and especially the GNUstep ObjC runtime to RISC-V.