Re: changes requesting for GCC 17 Release Criteria (secondary targets)

On Tue, 24 Mar 2026, Jeffrey Law wrote:

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> On 3/24/2026 2:03 AM, Richard Biener via Gcc wrote:
> > I'd like to see comments from the respective old/new triplets
> > target/OS maintainers,
> > in particular this request should probably be split up.
> >
> > I agree to _add_ riscv64-linux-gnu for GCC 17.
> That seems quite reasonable and I wouldn't go any further than that for riscv
> until such time as there's dramatically better performing hardware with wide
> availability.   And no, the upcoming K3s don't meet my view of dramatically
> better.
> 
> My x86_64 tests run in 1-2hrs on skylake era systems.  riscv on the K1 designs
> is nearly 30 hours.  At best I expect the K3  to cut that down to 15 hours.   
> The pioneer (c920 design) is just 7-8 hours, but it's been discontinued and
> they've been pretty flakey.

Yes, it seems to be still fastest to do qemu-user based testing on 
x86-64 for riscv ...

But I guess riscv(32?) is relevant as a cross target for embedded use.

This is a list of secondary _targets_, not hosts, after all ;)

Richard.