Hi riscv64 porters,In bug 1092153 [1] we discussed the slowness of the riscv64 hardware available for Debian. At the time we accepted the situation as a bootstrapping problem. Recently we've witnessed some delays because of riscv64 build speed (e.g. migration delay for linux kernel CVE fixes), and since riscv64 got added to ci.debian.net it needed shepherding to stay up and a lot of tests actually fail because of the slowness.
Hence, I'd like to request an update on the situation. When do you think the situation can be improved realistically? As an example, I've heard that for some of the faster hardware, the kernel patches still aren't accepted upstream. Also, on what timescale can the slow hardware (both buildds and the ci.d.n hardware) be replaced with faster hardware that runs reliably?
PaulPS: I personally have the impression that rust is a particular problem on riscv64. While I recognize most things are slower on riscv64 hardware, it seems that rust is extra slow. The ci.d.n team is considering to reject_list all rust packages on riscv64.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1092153
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