Status update: RISC-V port

Joakim dlang at joakim.fea.st
Sat Nov 3 05:48:38 UTC 2018


On Friday, 2 November 2018 at 17:18:01 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just joined lowRISC, where I'm working on LLVM support for 
> RISC-V and some other related things. That means that, after 
> settling in, I will resume my efforts to port 
> LDC/druntime/Phobos to RISC-V. Some of the RISC-V LLVM features 
> required for D will also start landing soon (e.g. atomics 
> support), which will minimize the amount of workarounds I have 
> to use.
>
> I'll also be in a better position to contribute to LDC more 
> broadly, as I'll have a better understanding of LLVM.

Nice, it would be worthwhile to make ssh access available to 
LDC/GDC devs on a RISC-V board somewhere, so we can pitch in with 
the port. I'd have rented a RISC-V VPS instead, but there's none 
available. ;)


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