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OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon
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RISC-V architecture port status #495

Closed alitariq4589 closed 7 months ago

alitariq4589 commented 7 months ago

Hello, I have seen in this sheet that the status of OpenVPN about RISC-V port is marked as "Unknown". So I wanted to confirm if it is ported to RISC-V architecture or needs a maintained CI system for RISC-V builds.

In case OpenVPN needs a CI platform for RISC-V, Cloud-V can be a good platform for automated CI builds. You can get access at this page or email directly at cloud-v@10xengineers.ai

cron2 commented 7 months ago

OpenVPN does not run "on RISC-V". It will run on some operating system that runs on that hardware.

So, "support for RISC-V" depends on what OS is there, and if this is a standard unixoid (FreeBSD, Linux) or something more special which is lacking relevant kernel features. In the former case, I expect this to be a trivial excercise (git clone ; autoreconf -vif; configure ; make), in the latter case, outside our control...

On the OpenVPN developer side, I'm not sure if anyone has sufficient interest and time to go out and play with this platform - but if you do, and it does not work "out of the box", let us know, and we'll help making it work.

schwabe commented 7 months ago

Also OpenVPN already runs a wide array of instruction sets and RISCV is just another little endian instruction set. We don't expect any problems with that. As @cron2 said, if there is any issue with RISCV, we can look into but currently getting a RISCV platform or testing it, is it a not a high priority for us.

flichtenheld commented 7 months ago

Looks to me like the question was answered