commit: 28c8d820d4912d5e86d6b64d6ed5ae19dee5ace8 Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Sun Sep 6 10:41:44 2020 +0000 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Sun Sep 6 10:41:44 2020 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=28c8d820
Add riscv-multilib-going-away news item Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge <AT> gentoo.org> .../2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away.en.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away.en.txt b/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f285c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Title: riscv multilib profile is going away +Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <[email protected]> +Posted: 2020-09-06 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc + +The Gentoo RISC-V team is discontinuing the riscv64 multilib stages and +profile. The main reason for this is that with the upcoming introduction +of riscv32 a multilib stage would contain both 32bit and 64bit binaries, +and so far no hardware exists that is able to run both and thus update +the stage or installation (unless you use qemu). + +Please switch to the rv64gc/lp64d profile. This is done by +* selecting default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc/lp64d with eselect profile +* rebuilding gcc + emerge -1 sys-devel/gcc +* and then rebuilding your system + emerge -ev @world + +The default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc profile will stop functioning soon.
