Hey folks!
Since Fedora 43 has been released for the primary architectures, some of you might be wondering how things are going with RISC-V. The short answer is: it’s still cooking — the images will be out soon. In the meantime, here’s a quick update:
What’s the current status?
We’ve completed about two-thirds of the F43 mass rebuild — the final third is underway. This is a rough approximation, and the numbers continue to change as we make progress.
Some images are available for testing (see the next section). However, several board-specific images are still in progress (e.g., SiFive HiFive Premier P550, boards based on SpacemiT cores, et al.).
What’s currently available?
As of now, we have enough progress to provide some images for testing with QEMU on x86 hardware, or on select RISC-V boards such as the StarFive VisionFive 2, SiFive HiFive Unleashed, and Unmatched, as well as in containers.
Here are the Cloud and Server disk images:
These images are not tied to specific hardware, and can be tested with QEMU on your x86 host, and on the above-mentioned boards. Here are the instructions on how to proceed with that.
We also have the container images (these are best tested on native hardware):
We appreciate any testing of the above images. Please report any issues here in this thread, or in the Fedora RISC-V Matrix channel.
Regards,
Fedora RISC-V community