Some of you have been following on IRC, some of you have noticed the ACCEPTED mails from dak on the mailing list, some of you may have noticed the recent closure of bug #1033658. For all the others, I am happy to share the good news:
riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture
If you don’t believe it, just have a look at [1]. However before you rush to update your sources.list file, I want to warn you that the archive is currently almost empty, and that only the sid and experimental suites are available. The procedure is to rebootstrap the port within the official archive, which means we won’t import the full debian-ports archive.
Therefore our next step is to build a minimal set of ~90 source packages using the debian-ports archive and then import them into the official archive. These packages will be signed with a special GPG key using debian-riscv@lists.debian.org as the email address, enabling easy tracking. This process has already started, hence the few ACCEPTED mails on the mailing list. It will probably take a few days especially given that sid is constantly evolving.
Once done, we’ll point the build daemons to the official archive. In the meantime you can just continue to use the debian-ports archive on your devices.
[1] https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-riscv64/
Great. Now we only need a decent SBC you can buy.
Depends of what you mean by decent, but there are several linux capable ones that are fairly cheap.
Not an expert but i would start my research here , You can always ask on the risc-v subreddit where there are more knowledgeable people.
Any list of available RISC-V boards?
I try to compile a NixOS image for my star64 board. I wonder if I can just use debian sid or smth.
Sounds neat. Is there a guide you are following or is it a project of your own?
The wiki links NixOS hardware repo.
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/STAR64
https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/tree/master/pine64/star64
Seems like I am either stupid or the image this nix build created doesn’t work.
Awesome news! Hopefully more and more distros will catch up too.
