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| 2025-03-13 |
Chimera dropping new RISC-V builds |
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The Chimera Linux project is dropping new builds for the RISC-V architecture due to a lack of suitable RISC-V powered computers able to build packages. "At this point, to have a relatively sustainable base, we'd need a board that is at least as powerful as Raspberry Pi 5. This would still make the slowest builder in the fleet, but it would likely be faster than the current emulation arrangement while also being more reliable.
However, the industry does not seem to be interested in producing such machines and for most part focuses on embedded (low-end) as well as things entirely irrelevant to a distro (AI/NPU etc.) that do not help at all; at this point I don't think we can wait any longer, especially as no remedy has been announced.
We have no such problem with the other architectures; obviously x86 and ARM are at this point mainstream and this does not surprise anyone, but even the likes of LoongArch have perfectly acceptable hardware (not the fastest, but also not a bottleneck) that performs reliably." Additional information is provided in the distribution's blog post. |
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