I want to build and run rocket-chip (https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip) but I’m hitting incompatibility issues. I’ve experienced similar issues on a number or RiscV implementations and tools, and I’ve been pointed to this forum to ask for help.
I can use a completely virgin installation of the distro, and I’ve tried these and I hit issues with all of them.
Fedora 24
Fedora 25
Fedora 26
CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
So what Linux distribution should I be using and what packages should I install?
I’d use Ubuntu out of those. In my experience more people and projects use it as their reference than anything else. But if you are more familiar with another distro then there shouldn’t be any problem.
Thanks for your help. This unblocked me. I had installed a set of packages for a different project that hadn’t included device-tree-compiler. I haven’t completed building successfully yet, but since it’s taking a while, I wanted to thank you.