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Contact: Mitchell Horne [email protected]
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The FreeBSD/RISC-V project is providing support for running FreeBSD on the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture.
This quarter saw several important bug fixes. A number of hangs in the system
were identified and addressed, and a bug in QEMU's implementation of the
Platform Level Interrupt Controller was fixed. This fix is included in the new
devel/qemu50 and devel/qemu-devel ports.
The end result of these fixes is that the test suite can now be reliably run to completion in QEMU. The entire run takes several hours, so CI has been configured to run the job once a day. There is active effort into reducing the time it takes to run the entire test suite.
A new u-boot port was created: sysutils/u-boot-qemu-riscv64. This variant can
be used as a secondary bootloader alongside OpenSBI to load and launch FreeBSD's
loader(8) from an EFI System Partition.
Next quarter will likely bring further fixes to address some of the failing test cases.