<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rwmj</author><text>For those not following RISC-V closely, 2018 promises to be an interesting year:&lt;p&gt;* 64 bit hardware will be available from SiFive.  It&amp;#x27;ll be low-ish end, 4 application cores, but it&amp;#x27;ll run real Linux distros.  SiFive are already shipping early hardware to various partners.&lt;p&gt;* Linux 4.15 will ship with RISC-V support.  It&amp;#x27;s available in RC releases now.  (-rc1 was 3 days ago I think)&lt;p&gt;* glibc will ship RISC-V support.  That&amp;#x27;ll happen in February 2018.  I think it&amp;#x27;s not appreciated how important this is.  It means there will be a stable ABI to develop against, and we won&amp;#x27;t need to re-bootstrap Linux distros again.&lt;p&gt;* GCC and binutils have been upstream for a while.&lt;p&gt;* A lot of other projects have been holding off integrating RISC-V-related support and patches until RISC-V &amp;quot;gets real&amp;quot;, ie. it&amp;#x27;s really available in the kernel, there&amp;#x27;s hardware.  These projects are unblocked.&lt;p&gt;* Fedora and Debian bootstrapping will kick off (again).  [Disclaimer: I&amp;#x27;m the Fedora&amp;#x2F;RISC-V maintainer, but I&amp;#x27;m also getting everything upstream and coordinating with Debian]&lt;p&gt;* There&amp;#x27;ll be finalized specs for virtualization, no hardware though.&lt;p&gt;* There should be at least a solid draft of a spec for industrial&amp;#x2F;server hardware.  Of course no server-class hardware available for a while.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One</title><url>http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/11/seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-one/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>jabl</author><text>And day two: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lowrisc.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-two&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lowrisc.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;seventh-risc-v-workshop-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Seventh RISC-V Workshop: Day One</title><url>http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/11/seventh-risc-v-workshop-day-one/</url></story>