[libre-riscv-dev] Reference OS

Scheming Pony scheming-pony at protonmail.com
Wed Feb 19 02:44:37 GMT 2020


Follow up questions:

1) I guess I am in some quantum space, but what processor *are* we building?  I thought RISC-V then I heard PowerPC.

2) There's also the BIOS...Open Firmware...?

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, February 19, 2020 1:54 AM, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 17:20 Veera vklr at vkten.in wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:59:57AM +0000, Scheming Pony wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a decision on an initial reference OS to run on the Libre
> > > development platform? *BSD, Linux, Haiku...none?
> >
> > May be Luke or Jacob know?
>
> We never explicitly decided, but we've been planning on it being some
> variant of Linux. I'm planning on getting Kazan included in at least Debian
> and Fedora, since a large portion of Linux distros are based on them.
>
> > RISC-V supporting OS's:
> > FreeBSD-current is updated constantly.
> > Debian has support in ports.
> > Buildroot is keeping updated port.
> > Yocto is keeping updated port.
>
> Fedora too.
>
> Jacob
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