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Better title: Rocky Linux 10 Will Support Two RISC-V Boards
Even better title: Rocky will take the RHEL work and rebrand and sell the boards at a discount from China and claim a win and that they're being attacked by IBM.
Better title: Rocky Linux 10 Will Support Two RISC-V Boards
For a distro,just building packages for an architecture is notable support-wise. Those with custom firmware and kernels can pair them with the rocky 10 userspace.
How do they get access to the source code? I read some time ago that RH has changed how they provided the source code and that it was (almost) impossible to get it now?
A lot of RISC-V support was already in F40 (which EL10 is cut from), so the rest was largely backporting and integrating into RHEL, which again, we've been tracking since CentOS Stream 10 was branched from Fedora last year.
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I don't know where you heard that? The source code for Red Hat's RISC-V developer preview will be released alongside the binaries, on 1st June. However almost all of it is already in CentOS Stream 10 and you can browse it here: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream There are a few patched packages (and quite a large kernel patch), which is what we'll be releasing into a separate git repo when the developer preview…
I mean in general, you can read it here for example: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/10/oracle_ibm_rhel_code/...
I understand why people use RH and Rocky and even Oracle: the rpm wranglers. However its not for me. My earliest mainstream distro was RH when they did it just for fun (pre IBM) and then I slid slightly sideways towards Mandrake. I started off with Yggdrassil. I have to do jobs involving RH and co and its just a bit of a pain dealing with elderly stuff. Tomcat ... OK you can have one from 1863. There is a really good…
I’d rather use redhat than Ubuntu. I was handed a machine the other week with Ubuntu 23.10 on it, OS supplied from a vendor with extensive customization. Apt was dead. Fuck that. At least RH doesn’t kill their repos.
Better title: Rocky Linux 10 Will Support Two RISC-V Boards
Even to support one board, they'd need the whole build / testing infrastructure for RISC-V. Likely adding more boards is booing to be easy now, and any architecture-specific regressions, easier to spot and fix timely.
It's true that since we've had a usable build root since last 2024, it gives our AltArch group the opportunity to build different kernels to support other SBC's or boards like they already do for ARM SBC's (rasperry pi for example, since that support isn't native to the EL kernel). So while we support the VF2's and QEMU out of the box, that group will handle the additional kernels for more hardware support.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing what other boards the AltArch group will happen to add support for.
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Even better title: Rocky will take the RHEL work and rebrand and sell the boards at a discount from China and claim a win and that they're being attacked by IBM.
We've actually been working with Fedora and RH on RISC-V for over a year now :)
Great I always applaud contributions and I want to encourage it. But please see the damage done by some quite senior persons on the project and please distance yourselves from them.
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Even better title: Rocky will take the RHEL work and rebrand and sell the boards at a discount from China and claim a win and that they're being attacked by IBM.
Man some of y'all really have beef with Rocky...
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Yes. See https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/edk2/tree/dtbloader-app?t... for example.
It's a shame the DT approach encourages land fill of boards when the manufacturer stops providing updates.