[SpaceManiac]

The author means making compute time on the hardware available to run CI builds on their service. If you care about porting your software to RISC-V enough to want to test that software there, hardware is probably a more accurate harness than qemu.

[IntelMiner]

I'd love to see time being given to Gentoo. They're basically up there with Debian in terms of supporting "alternative" architectures

According to the Handbook. They currently support

Alpha, AMD64, ARM, ARM64 HPPA/PA-RISC, IA64, MIPS, PPC, PPC64, SPARC and x86 (i486 and i686)

[als0]

Beyond even. A while ago Debian dropped support for Alpha, IA64 and PA-RISC. Even SPARC isn't supported anymore.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en

[wbl]

You gotta love an arch that can reorder dependent reads.

[bogomipz]

Which arch permits reordering of dependent reads? Might you have any resources you could share? Thanks.

[qlk1123]

Just a note here, actually Fedora/RISC-V are hosting their release builds on qemu.

[rwmj]

I'm not sure what this means, but we have 3 of these SiFive boards doing builds[1], as well as dozens of qemu instances running on Intel hardware supplied by Facebook. We use the SiFive boards for the largest builds however, things like GCC and the kernel, because they're still much better than qemu.

[1] Or we were up to yesterday when we had a hardware failure (on an Intel machine) so our build system is currently down. Four days before Christmas, so the worst possible time ...