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Debian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support But Still Bound By Slow Hardware
With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian 'Trixie' release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture
Other RISC-V single board computers may work fine with Debian 13.0 if resorting to using their vendor kernels. One of the issues for Debian RISC-V efforts is that their build daemons are still based on the aging SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer boards and they are "quite slow". Those wishing to learn more about this current state of Debian for RISC-V can see the PDF slide deck from DebConf25.
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