Project home page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V
-Current status
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-
-Stuck getting QEMU to work. See:
-https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/forum/#!topic/sw-dev/fdbhLufxezA
-
-Will likely wait until September when we may see a working QEMU that
-is compatible with the latest RISC-V software.
-
-
The aim of the project
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for [almost*] everything, buildable from source RPMS.
Currently no hardware is available, so you either have to run RISC-V
-on an FPGA, or use QEMU emulation.
+on an FPGA, or use QEMU/Spike emulation.
For the FPGA option, you will need a Nexys 4 DDR development kit
costing around US$341, plus an ordinary micro SD card (8+ GB), plus a
- Network access is available.
+For the Spike emulation option, see below.
+
+ - Spike has unlimited system RAM.
+
+ - No network.
+
[*] Some CPU peripherals use proprietary IP. The aim is to replace
these with open equivalents eventually. Building the FPGA bitstream
However the majority of packages will be built on RISC-V itself.
Since there are no RISC-V builders, and we cannot really provide them,
-initially developers will be building them on their own FPGAs / QEMUs
-and uploading them.
+initially developers will be building them on their own FPGAs /
+emulators and uploading them.
Getting build infrastructure would be a more long-term aim.
Note this package runs on x86-64 hosts, and is intended for people who
want to run Fedora/RISC-V but who do not have FPGA/hardware.
-(1b) Nexys4 DDR FPGA
+(1b) riscv-isa-sim.x86_64: Spike system emulator
+
+Since QEMU is broken at the moment, we must use the slower Spike
+emulator instead.
+
+(1c) Nexys4 DDR FPGA
Various sources, see:
http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/untether-v0.2/fpga-demo/