Bug 1390738

Summary:	Add riscv64 support to binutils
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	binutils	Assignee:	Nick Clifton <nickc>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2016-11-01 19:05:06 UTC

Description of problem:

binutils has gained RISC-V architecture support upstream.  Fedora
supports RISC-V at the moment through a forked binutils package.
It would be nice to have the Fedora binutils package support RISC-V
so we don't need the forked package.

The two commits required are:
6d91379408b87b6d0c1cd4bc2880b530cc4ec721
e23eba971dd409b999dd83d8df0f842680c1c642

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

binutils 2.27

(I'm testing a patched binutils, will write more when I get it working)

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-11-01 19:41:08 UTC

This is the package I am testing:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=16275615
(This is the non-riscv64 build, I am concurrently building it on riscv64)

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-11-01 23:49:56 UTC

Logs from the riscv64 build:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/logs/binutils/2.27-10.fc26/

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-11-03 20:10:14 UTC

I'm going to defer this one because it's a little more complex
than I anticipated, and in any case RISC-V support will appear
automatically when the next version of binutils is released.

Comment 4 Nick Clifton 2016-11-04 15:49:55 UTC

Hi Richard,

  Even when the Fedora binutils package is updated with the next FSF binutils release it will not officially support the RISC-V architecture, since this is not a primary target.  (Unofficially of course it will).  You might be interested in contacting the maintainer of the Fedora cross-binutils package[1] however, so that RISC-V could be added there.

Cheers
  Nick

[1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/cross-binutils

Comment 5 Richard W.M. Jones 2016-11-04 16:14:42 UTC

Right - we're going to build it ourselves from the Fedora source
package when the change appears there.  We're not cross-building
packages, they are built in the RISC-V full system environment.
However for people who do want cross-building then yes it will be
a good idea to request that the arch is added to cross-binutils.