GitHub Actions on RISC-V

This repository provides a guide on how to build and use GitHub Actions (GitHub CI) on Self-Hosted RISC-V CPU machines.

Disclaimer: this project is not related to GitHub or .NET development. Any instructions or binary packages published in the spirit of the open source. Use carefully.

Observed issues

• The workspace is not cleaned
• actions/upload-artifact not working because of disabled Node.js (actually, ARM64 binaries were downloaded)

How to use

Use a pre-compiled version or follow the build steps from build.yaml. Cross-compilation is not supported for now so build process is performed on RISC-V board which takes about 1 hour.

After unpacking the runner archive, install .NET:

cd $HOME
wget https://github.com/dkurt/dotnet_riscv/releases/download/v8.0.101/dotnet-sdk-8.0.101-linux-riscv64.tar.gz

sudo mkdir /usr/share/dotnet
cd /usr/share/dotnet
sudo tar -xf $HOME/dotnet-sdk-8.0.101-linux-riscv64.tar.gz

Verify .NET installation:

./dotnet --info

Then do ./config.sh and ./run.sh as recommended in your repository Settings->Actions->Runners->New self-hosted runner tab.

Runner was tested on Sipeed Lichee RV Dock with Ubuntu 23.10.