Hi all,

There has been sustained interest in, and responsive contributors for,
RISC-V support in NumPy. There are now self-hosted runners from the RISE
project (https://riseproject.dev/), which we're about to get green (I hope)
on https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/30995.

Their interest extends to adding RISC-V as a supported platform for which
we ship wheels on PyPI - see https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/30216.
It seems a little too early to consider crossing that bridge today, but
it's an up-and-coming platform so it's fairly likely that we'll consider it
in the future I'd think.

For now, I propose we add RISC-V as a Tier 3 platform at
https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0057-numpy-platform-support.html#tier-3, next to
ppc64le and Pyodide. That means we have CI support and contributors who
have stuck up their hand and can be pinged in case of platform-specific
issues that need addressing.

We also have SIMD and CPU detection code specific to RISC-V, so having
native runners in CI will be quite helpful either way. And hopefully we can
disable the slow QEMU-based job once we're happy with the self-hosted
runners.

Thoughts or concerns?

Cheers,
Ralf
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