13:42 <cwt[m]> My second VF2 board just arrived in my country, it should be delivered to my office within 2 days

13:43 <davidlt[m]> Cool

14:41 <PrathamPatel[m]> Hi davidlt

14:42 <PrathamPatel[m]> I want to experiment with building Rocky packages. To start, I need at least Fedora so I can compile pkgs.

14:42 <davidlt[m]> You can chroot into Fedora 37 rootfs.

14:42 <PrathamPatel[m]> How do _you_ recommend I get started using QEMU? (I have a board but no "proper" image is available)

14:42 <davidlt[m]> You can do that with QEMU too.

14:43 <davidlt[m]> See: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V/Installing#Boot_under_QEMU

14:43 <davidlt[m]> The largest VM I attempted was 32-cores 80GB RAM.

14:44 <davidlt[m]> We don't support more than 32-core CPUs on QEMU (right now, might change to 120+ or so in mid-future)

14:44 <PrathamPatel[m]> I meant a full fledged VM... The images aren't the most up-to-date :(

14:44 <PrathamPatel[m]> The last image is of F37 but it doesn't have the uboot/sbi firmware related to it

14:44 <davidlt[m]> This is the most up to date for us right now.

14:45 <davidlt[m]> Instructions show how to acquire all relevant firmware bits for QEMU.

14:46 <PrathamPatel[m]> I'll have a look, thanks! :D

14:48 <davidlt[m]> Once you boot you basically install rocky*-release, generic-release, rocky-rpm-config (if such exist), and you are basically good to go.

14:48 <davidlt[m]> At that point you want to pull SRPMs from @core group and start rebuilding them.

14:49 <PrathamPatel[m]> Oh no no, Rocky has 0 riscv packages as of now. It's a literal fresh start 😅

14:49 <davidlt[m]> Star small like zlib, xz, gzip, tar, leading to libarchve, going towards rpm, etc.

14:51 <davidlt[m]> They have been experimenting. I just don't know if any of that was public, IRC, or private.

14:51 <PrathamPatel[m]> There is a mock cfg file but other than that, I don't think so

14:53 <davidlt[m]> You might want to coordinate with neil from Rocky Linux on bootstrapping.

14:53 <neil> it's all public in #rockylinux-sig-altarch on Libera (should be accessible from Matrix)

14:53 <neil> PrathamPatel[m] 👆

14:54 <PrathamPatel[m]> Yep, I'm in the mattermost chat :D

14:54 <davidlt[m]> Maybe I should join that one too.

14:54 <PrathamPatel[m]> xd

14:54 <neil> :D

14:54 <PrathamPatel[m]> * XD

14:55 <PrathamPatel[m]> On a side note, what would I need to do to convince that Fedora users in India do exist?

14:55 <davidlt[m]> Oh, there was a channel on Matrix thus I didn't to use the IRC bridge.

14:55 <cwt[m]> Is there anyone talking about porting Oracle Linux to riscv yet?

14:55 <PrathamPatel[m]> I can hardly get 100KB/s but once I connect to usa via VPN, it works at 200Mbit/s

14:56 <davidlt[m]> cwt: to my knowledge no.

14:56 <PrathamPatel[m]> cwt[m]: Oracle Linux is downstream of RHEL, so I don't think that will happen before Rocky/Red Hat does something

14:56 <neil> davidlt[m] i think that should be the same channel, at least, i think our matrix and irc namespaces are merged or whatever it's called

14:58 <cwt[m]> PrathamPatel[m]: I'm a big fan of its UEK kernel, especially Oracle Linux still be able to use btrfs via UEK

15:02 <neil> I highly doubt there are a lot of people at Oracle staring at riscv at this time

15:02 <neil> and having risc-v supporting in their UEK is probably a long long way off

15:05 <davidlt[m]> Pretty much everything is blocked by a proper hardware :)

15:05 <cwt[m]> Is there any EL downstream that re-enables btrfs?

15:05 <neil> i think centos stream hyperscale sig supports it