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It would be nice to have official riscv64 support for the upcoming 3.16 release of Alpine Linux. From my point of view, there are a few issues that should be addressed within the 3.16 development cycle to offer official support for the riscv64 architecture. This issue serves as a tracking issue to track the status of these individual issues.

• #12985: Boostrap rustc for riscv64. Currently, a lot of packages are disabled due to lack of rustc. I would personally argue that would be beneficial to add support for riscv64 to community/rust before supporting the architecture officially given the vast amount of packages that depend on rust.
• #13267: Don't build riscv64 packages with options="!check" globally. This seems to be a formal requirement set forth by the TSC for official architecture support in a -stable branch [0]. This will likely require real riscv64 hardware for the builders.
• alpine/infra/infra#10738: It would be nice to have continuous integration support for riscv64 in GitLab since this allows us to detect riscv64 build issues on package upgrades/modifications early.
• Determine what kind of installation media we want to provide for riscv64. @ddevault has been working on having U-Boot bootstrap UEFI into grub (cb053f35) on the Unmatched. Additionally it might be nice to provide an APKVOL image (similar the "Generic ARM" image) for RISC-V (see #12976). I believe @clandmeter was also working on such an image.

People which have RISC-V hardware and might be interested in official riscv64 support: @ariadne, @rvs, @clandmeter, @ddevault.

Might be useful to also create a riscv64 team?