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diff --git a/metadata/news/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away.en.txt b/metadata/news/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..7f285c864b10 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away/2020-09-06-riscv-multilib-going-away.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +Title: riscv multilib profile is going away +Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2020-09-06 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Profile: default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc + +The Gentoo RISC-V team is discontinuing the riscv64 multilib stages and +profile. The main reason for this is that with the upcoming introduction +of riscv32 a multilib stage would contain both 32bit and 64bit binaries, +and so far no hardware exists that is able to run both and thus update +the stage or installation (unless you use qemu). + +Please switch to the rv64gc/lp64d profile. This is done by +* selecting default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc/lp64d with eselect profile +* rebuilding gcc + emerge -1 sys-devel/gcc +* and then rebuilding your system + emerge -ev @world + +The default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc profile will stop functioning soon. |