Fedora 42 RISC-V (non-official) images are available!

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Hi, folks!

Fedora 42 images for the RISC-V alternative architecture are now available. Please note that RISC-V is not yet a Fedora primary or secondary architecture. These non-official images are brought to you by the Fedora RISC-V Community.

This release includes server, cloud, and container images. Among the server images, in addition to the “host generic” option which works great on StarFive VisionFive 2, there are also two hardware-specific images: one for SiFive HiFive Premier P550 and another for Milk-V Megrez. A list of supported and experimental hardware is available here[2].

Installation instructions for StarFive VisionFive 2 are available here[3] and for SiFive HiFive Premier P550 here[4]. The Fedora-Server-Host-Generic and Fedora-Cloud-Base-Generic images aren’t tied to specific hardware, so you can test them with emulation software such as QEMU. If you want to give them a spin, here[5] are the instructions.

Any issues, hit us up on the Fedora RISC-V Matrix channel[6].

Regards,
the Fedora RISC-V Community

[1] Index of /pub/alt/risc-v/release/42
[2] Architectures/RISC-V/Hardware - Fedora Project Wiki
[3] Architectures/RISC-V/StarFive/VisionFive2 - Fedora Project Wiki
[4] Architectures/RISC-V/SiFive/HiFivePremierP550 - Fedora Project Wiki
[5] Architectures/RISC-V/QEMU - Fedora Project Wiki
[6] https://chat.fedoraproject.org/#/room/#riscv:fedoraproject.org

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It looks like that you tried to make a foot-note and something went wrong?
I fixed it for you :wink:

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It looks like that you tried to make a foot-note and something went wrong? I fixed it for you :wink:

Actually, I didn’t make it a footnote, I wanted that to be in the first paragraph to make it clear that these are community-provided images, and not “official” ones :slight_smile: So I put it back in the main paragrapah.

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I think it is time for me to start checking out RISC-V - any advice about hardware? - I have been thinking about a Framework laptop but maybe I should get started with a desktop?