Drew DeVault • 12/20/2018

Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V

The article describes the author's hands-on experience porting Alpine Linux to the RISC-V architecture using the new HiFive Unleashed hardware. It covers the two-phase process of bootstrapping (setting up a cross-compiler and porting musl libc) and the subsequent mass porting of packages. The author discusses technical challenges, patches submitted to the musl libc project, and plans to make RISC-V build cycles publicly available on builds.sr.ht.

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#Bootstrapping #Porting #Cross Compilation