riscv64 musl?

[ludiazv]

Hi,
The market for small eSBC with riscv64 is exploding. Some vendors are providing linux working linux images based on musl instead of gnu. Is there any chance to have this image also available?

[richardhenwood]

I just saw a thread on webkit that was discussing a risc-v musl build using Alpine: webview/webview#1056 (comment)

That might provide a starting point if you are interested in starting hacking.

[ludiazv]

Thanks @richardhenwood ,

This is my current approach for musl. It basically requires to spin an Alpine container along side with QEMU multiarch. Is works but is not true cross-compliation, in fact is a native compilation in an emulated container.

The problem with this approach is that the build is emulated by QEMU and is slow. Even slower that with the same approach for ARM ( My assumption the qemu emulation for arm in a x86 host is more mature and optimised). For non trivial projects it takes forever to compile, I was looking for true cross-compilation alternatives to speed up the process.

[richardhenwood]

Thanks for taking the time to explain @ludiazv - in my experience emulation is not only slow but also can struggle if you have a JIT workload. I personally don't have time to spend with this project - but I'm a big fan of cross-compiling and I think this is a wonderful project!

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