alt Hacker NewsJust out of interest, why aren't they cross compiling RISC-V? I thought that was common practice when targeting lower performing hardware. It seems odd to me that the build cycle on the target hardware is a metric that matters.
Just out of interest, why aren't they cross compiling RISC-V? I thought that was common practice when targeting lower performing hardware. It seems odd to me that the build cycle on the target hardware is a metric that matters.
Please skim the thread :) We've already discussed it twice. Fedora "mandates" native builds.
Build time on target hardware matters when you're re-building an entire Linux distribution (25000+ packages) every six months.