Debian 13 "Trixie" Aiming To Ship With RISC-V 64-Bit Support

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RISC-V, RISC-V, RISC-V like Gordon Mah Ung said

“One of the notable comments made in that Debian release team update is that while RISCV64 (RISC-V 64-bit) isn't yet on the official architecture list, the port is making good progress. For the Debian 13 release in a year and a half to two years out, it's expected to ship RISC-V 64-bit support. The architecture qualification will need to happen later in the Debian Trixie cycle.

The release team update can be found on the Debian mailing list. It would have been nice to see RISC-V support with Debian 12 but understandable considering many community open-source developers lack access to performant RISC-V hardware, but by the time of Debian 13 hopefully the RISC-V 64-bit open-source ecosystem will be a lot more mature.”

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Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-RISC-V-64-Potential
 
Interesting.

I think it's a decade off, but it would be cool to have a RISC-V machine.
Where RISC-V is at right now is where ARM was at exactly a decade ago.
Look how far ARM has come since its introductory 64-bit CPUs/SoCs back in 2013 compared to the 128+ core giant CPUs they have now.

I would expect no less from RISC-V by 2033.
x86-64 has its work cut out for it.
 
Where RISC-V is at right now is where ARM was at exactly a decade ago.
Look how far ARM has come since its introductory 64-bit CPUs/SoCs back in 2013 compared to the 128+ core giant CPUs they have now.

I would expect no less from RISC-V by 2033.
x86-64 has its work cut out for it.
If not faster and sooner
 
RISC-V KASLR Support For Linux Revised Again https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-RISC-V-KASLR-v3

KASLR on x86/x86_64 has been in mainline for about a decade and there's also been efforts to further enhance the randomization with the yet-to-be-finished FGKASLR. On the RISC-V side, KASLR support is still pending but this past week saw the third revision of the patches. The patches randomize the kernel mapping and relies on VMs having the bootloader provide a seed in the device tree or for physical RISC-V systems to have the firmware provide a randomized seed using the EFI RNG protocol.

With the v3 patches, the RISC-V KASLR code has been re-based against a newer Linux 6.4 state, there is a warning fix for RISC-V 32-bit, and other fixes. We'll see if this RISC-V KASLR support manages to be mainlined soon.
 

RISC-V CPU demoed with RX 7900 XTX GPU in Debian Linux — AMD flagship GPU paired with Milk-V Megrez board and SiFive P550 cores​

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By Matthew Connatser
published 2 days ago
The 7900 XTX was able to run the glmark2 benchmark.

RISC-V firm Milk-V demonstrated that it can get AMD’s RX 7900 XTX graphics card to work on one of its RISC-V boards.

The PC shown in the video uses Milk-V’s Megrez board, which is equipped with Chinese RISC-V chip maker Eswin’s EIC7700X, a system-on-chip (SoC) that hosts four P550 CPU cores designed by SiFive. The P550 core has been around since 2021, so it’s nothing cutting-edge at the tail end of 2024. The SoC sport H.265 encoding and decoding at 8K, and has a 20 TOPS NPU, which are both reasonably robust for PCs.

The particular 7900 XTX that Milk-V used was made by XFX and ran on Debian Linux. There wasn’t much choice in terms of the OS, as Linux boasts the best support for RISC-V at the moment. The brief demo showed the system running the glmark2 benchmark, which renders 3D objects at the highest framerate possible.


A few RISC-V laptops have made it to market, such as DeepComputing’s DC-ROMA and the Lichee Console 4A, but you could count them all on one or maybe two hands. No fully assembled RISC-V-powered desktop exists, but some motherboards come with RISC-V chips, such as those made by Milk-V.


https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...ith-milk-v-megrez-board-and-sifive-p550-cores
 
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