Not dropping RISC-V support after all, maybe

As circumstances have changed, we are not dropping RISC-V repos for the time being. Instead, newly rebuilt repositories are introduced, built on hardware, with tests. This support is provisional for now, with the new builder still being evaluated to see how it holds up in the long term. The situation now Shortly after announcing the drop, we were offered remote access to a Milk-V Pioneer machine by Zach van Rijn of Adélie Linux. This machine was originally intended for another purpose which never ended up materializing. I proceeded to do a full world rebuild on this machine, after some environment setup to allow our infra bits to run. This world rebuild is now finished, and makes up the new repository. For most part, it was relatively stable during the build (we had to build our own kernel to prevent the draft RVV 0.7 in the CPU from interfering, and there were two crashes but it was also under total continuous load the whole time). The performance is fairly acceptable, though no ... Read full article.