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Topic: Proposal RISC-V

What about porting hyperbola to riscv?
Why not at possible using riscv?
I don't see feature with x86.

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Re: Proposal RISC-V

There are several reasons why we do not support risc-v and see also no current future in it. First of all: Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre is not planned for a longer time. Second we are a very small team and running even that amount of packages for more architectures is not possible to maintain. Third at least: HyperbolaBSD is also not planned for Risc-V about the same reasoning.

And personal: Better to have a working system instead to support more architectures without working packages or damaged ones. If you do not see a future with x86, then please search for different systems or look how to support the current development to sustain a good working base. Also: To develop for some hardware, we need the hardware and analyze it. We have no risc-v hardware available for the moment and demanding from us to develop for hardware-platform we need to organize also, is nothing we can and want to comply.

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