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Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Canonical confirm a technical shift for Ubuntu on RISC-V. With Ubuntu 25.10, it will only support hardware meeting the RVA23 profile spec.
That’s according to RISC-V International, the main collaborative group steering and overseeing development of this open source and royalty free processor architecture. Plenty of deep-dives on RISC-V Vector extensions are available online if you find yourself curious about the computational underpinnings and future opportunities they stand to provide. Focusing future Ubuntu support to devices that have more capable RISC-V profile sets will further position the distro as the de-facto OS on the platform.
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