Discussion

Announcing the RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub

Western0: 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.

mhitza: 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.

ctz: people better not be snooping on my public open source projects!

woodruffw: 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.

IshKebab: Very good move. Hopefully GitHub won't ruin this with their CI charging changes.

LeFantome: 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.

stabbles: 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.

jubilanti: Yes, what a devious plan: give open source software projects a free CI service so you can... read their open source software code?

downrightmike: diabolical

boredatoms: ..is this RVA23?

throawayonthe: devious

singpolyma3: GitHub only :(