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Debian 13.0 To Begin Supporting RISC-V as an Official CPU Architecture


It was nearly a decade ago when the first RISCV64 port was started for Debian, reports Phoronix. But one of the big features planned for Debian 13.0 (planned for 9 August) is supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture. This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially supported ...

It was nearly a decade ago when the first RISCV64 port was started for Debian, reports Phoronix. This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially supported by Debian Linux albeit with limited board support and the Debian RISC-V build process is handicapped by slow hardware. Over seventeen thousand source Debian packages are building for RISC-V with Trixie... 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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