Debian’s RISC-V support has been coming together but how’s the state of affairs for the imminent Debian 10.0 “Buster” release?
The RISC-V 64-bit port of Debian GNU/Linux has been building more than 80 percent of the massive Debian package-set. Or if accounting for architecture dependent packages, the RISC-V port is seeing around 90 percent of packages building.
The main blockers in the RISC-V ecosystem from getting the remaining Debian packages built and allowing for a nice experience revolve primarily around Rust and LLVM support. Once the LLVM compiler stack has good support for RISC-V, that should unblock many other packages like Rust-dependent librsvg and Firefox, among others.
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