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RISC-V

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RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is a license-free, modular, extensible instruction set architecture (ISA).

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openRuyi — A Linux Distribution for RISC-V (openruyi.cn)
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Rolling releases with upstream tracking bring new RISC-V features and fixes to you sooner—less waiting, less rework.

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Stay close to upstream to reduce backports and forks. Easier reproduction, faster debugging, smoother upstream contributions.

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Surfaces firmware, platform semantics, and Linux interoperability issues early—so vendors fix faster, reduce divergence, and reach mainstream OS compatibility sooner.

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[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

There is a UEFI Requirements section in the RISC-V Boot and Runtime Services Specification (BRS) specification. But this is optional and as far as I know most SBCs don't use it. So yeah because of poor mainline Linux kernel and other components (like SBI) upstreaming by RISC-V systemproviders it is still a sad case that often you need a system specific image. So yeah I think we will need to wait until RISC-V breaks more into PC-like and server space before BRS and similar specs get used more.