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CentOS Now Providing Initial RISC-V Support


With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support.

CentOS announced yesterday on their blog:"Red Hat’s approach was to focus on a single hardware platform and perform a full bootstrap of the operating system, starting from source code and going all the way up to a graphical desktop complete with a comprehensive set of developer-oriented tools. Dozens of packages required changes — ranging from the trivial to the quite substantial — to build and run successfully on riscv64, and we’re happy to report that the vast majority of these patches have landed into CentOS Stream’s dist-git already. A small handful of packages still require out-of-tree patches for one reason or another: the corresponding git trees will be made available on June 1st, 2025 together with the RHEL 10 disk image.

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