Architectures/RISC-V

RISC-V (pronounced "RISC Five") is an open source instruction set architecture (ISA). This project, informally called Fedora/RISC-V, aims to provide a complete Fedora experience on the RISC-V (64 bit, RV64GC) architecture.

News

February/March 2018 Stage4 disk images are available. These are bootable in qemu and let you try out Fedora/RISC-V. Make sure you read the readme.txt file first. The development environment is quite complete with GCC 7.3.1, Perl 5.26, Python 2 and 3, git, systemd, various editors including vi and emacs, many -devel packages, and some X11 packages. It will be enough for most developers to start porting their software to RISC-V. The main missing things at the moment are Ruby, Java and Gtk 3.

Status January/February 2018 The third and hopefully final bootstrap of Fedora 27 has started. Please follow progress or try building it yourself via this git repository. Expected timelines are: 1-2 weeks until stage 3 disk images are available, 1-2 months until stage 4 pristine RPM-built disk images are available, 2 months until we are autobuilding regular Fedora packages, 3-6 months until we have koji-shadow functionality.

Communications

Find us on FreeNode IRC: #fedora-riscv

There is no specific mailing list, use the general Fedora developers' mailing list.

Topics

• Architectures/RISC-V/Building - Help to build packages for Fedora/RISC-V.
• Architectures/RISC-V/Bootstrapping - Bootstrapping Fedora on RISC-V.

Downloads

https://fedorapeople.org/groups/risc-v/

Disk images, RPMs, SRPMs. Log files and status from the autobuilder.

https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-autobuild

The autobuilder source.

https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-stage4

Scripts used to build the stage4 disk image.

https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-kernel

Linux kernel build scripts and patches

http://copr-fe.cloud.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rjones/riscv/

The COPR repository (for Fedora 27/x86_64) containing QEMU

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1553405

Tracker bug for all issues which affect Fedora on RISC-V

Bootstrapping is over so the following links are now obsolete:

https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-bootstrap

Git repository containing the bootstrapping work. Read the README file!

http://oirase.annexia.org/riscv/

Interim stage3 disk images built by rwmj

http://davidlt.web.cern.ch/davidlt/riscv/

Interim stage3 disk and kernel images built by davidlt.