Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-staging/RiscV64QemuVirt PATCH V8 00/19] Add support for RISC-V virt machine

["Sunil V L" <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 03:45:49PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 5:30 AM Sunil V L <sunilvl@ventanamicro.com> wrote:
> >
> > REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4076
> >
> > Add support for RISC-V qemu virt machine. Most of the changes are migrated from
> > edk2-platforms repo and added qemu specific libraries under OvmfPkg.
> >
> > The series has passed CI tests (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/4023)
> >
> > These changes are available at: https://github.com/vlsunil/edk2/tree/RiscV64QemuVirt_V8
> >
> > The series can be tested as per instructions @
> > https://github.com/vlsunil/riscv-uefi-edk2-docs/wiki/RISC-V-Qemu-Virt-support
> 
> Hi Sunil,
> 
>   Thanks for your work getting this merged! In the above wiki, it
> notes that GCC 12+ is not supported. Is that still accurate? If so,
> can you clarify what is blocking that?
> 
Hi Dan,

Please see https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4061.

My attempt to fix this issue
(https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/93831) was not accepted due to
the concerns that it can cause weird issues in CI.

So, we are left with either support gcc <12 or gcc >=12. We can mandate
gcc 12 itself for RISC-V, but that change need to be done hand in hand
with CI tests moving to use gcc 12. Otherwise, it will break CI.

Let me check with CI owners on their roadmap to move to gcc 12.

Thanks,
Sunil