RISC-V Support

[garrdbyrd]

With the rise of popularity for RISC-V processors, and now especially with Scaleway now offering RISC-V instances, it seems that support for RISC-V is becoming more essential. For me and (anecdotally) many others, remote connections to RISC-V machines is becoming the primary way of interacting and developing on the architecture. vim is sufficient, but I would love to remote connect VS Code these machines.

[Yoyokrazy]

@alexdima feel free to reassign to a more relevant person for the remote feature request

[vscodenpa]

This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[deepak1556]

Thanks for the interest, adding support for this architecture to remote requires upstream Node.js to officially support which hasn't happened yet nodejs/build#2876. I will keep this issue open to track.

[vscodenpa]

🙂 This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[benz0li]

ℹ️ Currently, vscode-reh can be successfully built using unofficial Linux/RISC-V Node.js binaries from https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org, e.g. v20.15.1.

(playwright/chromium is not (yet) available for Linux/RISC-V¹. And electron [therefore] also lacks RISC-V support²)

Footnotes

1. Chromium: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/42050595 ↩ ↩²

2. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/38892; points to ¹ ↩

[archanox]

(playwright [browsers] are not (yet) available for Linux/riscv64.

From what I understand is that there's a lack of upstream support in chromium?
Perhaps the relevant projects require issues to track this.

[kxxt]

FYI I maintain a fork¹ of electron with riscv64 support, with up-to-date releases published in a separate repo², which could be used until chromium and electron officially supports riscv64. And VSCodium supports riscv64 client³ and reh build, which could be used with open-remote-ssh⁴ plugin as a replacement for microsoft's proprietary remote-ssh plugin.

Footnotes

1. https://github.com/riscv-forks/electron ↩

2. https://github.com/riscv-forks/electron-riscv-releases ↩

3. https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/releases/download/1.93.1.24256/VSCodium-linux-riscv64-1.93.1.24256.tar.gz ↩

4. https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh ↩