The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub
83 points - last Thursday at 3:17 PM
Sourcewoodruffw
today at 5:54 PM
I’m a fan of this, although I’m concerned about the security/trust model: using a third-party CI orchestrator on top of GHA means trusting them with all of your secrets, potentially sensitive logs, etc. Those concerns are somewhat lessened in the context of public repos, but even public repos contain nontrivial workflows that use configured secrets.
My experience with RISC-V so far is that the chips are not much faster than QEMU emulation. In other words, it's very slow.
LeFantome
today at 6:56 PM
That has been the case so far but is changing this year.
The SpacemiT K3 is faster than QEMU. Much faster chips are expected to release over the next few months.
I mean things like the Milk-V Pioneer were already faster but expensive.
One thing that has been frustrating about RISC-V is that many companies close to releasing decent chips have been bought and then those chips never appear (Ventana, Rivos, etc). That and US sanctions (eg. Sophgo SG2380).
OsrsNeedsf2P
today at 6:15 PM
Oftentimes slow is fine, when the work is parallel and the hardware is cheap
which, sadly, isnt the case right now
camel-cdr
today at 6:18 PM
Sadly still on quite old hardware, with no RVV.
Hopefully scaleway will have some newer servers in the future and this can be simply updated to the new devices.
LeFantome
today at 7:05 PM
You can get RVV instances from Saleway.
Very good move. Hopefully GitHub won't ruin this with their CI charging changes.
singpolyma3
today at 7:22 PM
GitHub only :(
boredatoms
today at 6:47 PM
..is this RVA23?
LeFantome
today at 6:57 PM
Not yet
RV64GC (C910 cores)
Perfect for snooping on other people’s projects. No one in their right mind would touch this. It’s cheaper to buy the board yourself.
jubilanti
today at 6:26 PM
Yes, what a devious plan: give open source software projects a free CI service so you can... read their open source software code?
downrightmike
today at 6:33 PM
diabolical
throawayonthe
today at 7:11 PM
devious
It seems to be a Linux Foundation project, my trust is implicit higher than what you're claiming. Why wouldn't you trust them?
It's also aimed at open-source projects, for free, with the intent to improve RISC-V support.
LeFantome
today at 6:00 PM
RISE is supported by many legit companies. Stealing is for sure not the intent.
The idea is to promote testing on RISC-V and to eliminate lack of hardware for being the reason not to. Obviously, low budget projects and Open Source are the primary targets. Commercial products can afford real RISC-V hardware.
This is who you are trusting:
https://riseproject.dev/members/
people better not be snooping on my public open source projects!