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RISC-V Articles & Reviews

Benchmarking The First RISC-V Cloud Server: Scaleway EM-RV1 Performance   Processors   2024-05-14
RISC-V Performance On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS With Scaleway's EM-RV1   Operating Systems   2024-05-08
StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks   Computers   2023-08-16
SiFive RISC-V Sees Some Performance Improvements On Ubuntu 22.04   Operating Systems   2022-06-03
SiFive HiFive Unmatched Hands-On, Initial RISC-V Performance Benchmarks   Computers   2021-09-24
SiFive Helping To Teach Kids Programming With RISC-V HiFive Inventor Coding Kit   Computers   2021-01-18
SiFive Is Launching The Most Compelling RISC-V Development Board Yet   Motherboards   2020-10-29
The New Features Of Linux 4.15: AMDGPU DC, RISC-V, EPYC Benefits, VR Improvements   Software   2017-11-26

RISC-V Linux & Open-Source News

OpenBSD 7.6 Released With AVX-512, Initial Support For Snapdragon X Elite SoCs   BSD   2024-10-07
Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports   Operating Systems   2024-10-02
Granite Rapids, AmpereOne & PREEMPT_RT Landing Made For An Exciting September   Phoronix   2024-10-01
Linux 6.12 Hardware Monitoring Supports More OneXPlayer Gaming Handhelds   Hardware   2024-09-29
RISC-V Wires Up More Kernel Features With Linux 6.12   RISC-V   2024-09-26
ChipStar 1.2 Released For Compiling & Running HIP/CUDA On SPIR-V/OpenCL Hardware   Programming   2024-09-25
vDSO getrandom() Ported To Five More CPU Architectures With Linux 6.12   Linux Kernel   2024-09-23
Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13   RISC-V   2024-09-23
Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12   Linux Kernel   2024-09-22
Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12   Linux Kernel   2024-09-20
LLVM 19.1 Released With C++17 Support "Complete", More C & C++ Features   LLVM   2024-09-17
ARM / RISC-V / LoongArch KVM Updates Submitted For Linux 6.12   Virtualization   2024-09-17
TamaGo Allows Executing Go Language Code Bare Metal On ARM/RISC-V SoCs   Programming   2024-09-16
Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel   Hardware   2024-09-15
Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V   Intel   2024-09-13
Linux 6.12 Kernel To Add New Features For Intel & AMD Systems, Many Other Changes Too   Linux Kernel   2024-09-11
Latest "sched/rt" Commits Point To PREEMPT_RT Potentially Being Ready For Linux 6.12   Linux Kernel   2024-09-09
RISC-V Enabling Generic CPU Vulnerabilities Reporting   RISC-V   2024-09-08
Raspberry Pi Showcases Rust On The RP2350 Microcontroller   Raspberry Pi   2024-09-07
Linux Very Close To Enabling Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support   Linux Kernel   2024-09-06
FEX 2409 Highlights Some Of The Challenges Of Emulating x86 On RISC-V   Free Software   2024-09-06
QEMU 9.1 Released With AMD SEV-SNP Support & Intel IAA Acceleration During VM Migrations   Virtualization   2024-09-04
New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS   Linux Kernel   2024-09-03
Armbian 24.8 Moves To Linux 6.10, Supports Newer ARM & RISC-V Boards   Operating Systems   2024-09-02
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August   Phoronix   2024-09-01
AMD & FreeBSD Begin Collaborating Over OS Improvements   BSD   2024-08-19
Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use   Red Hat   2024-08-15
SiFive Announces P870-D For Up To 256 RISC-V Cores   RISC-V   2024-08-14
Updated XZ Code For The Kernel Looks Like It's Ready For Linux 6.12   Linux Kernel   2024-08-12
OpenBLAS 0.3.28 Brings More Optimizations, Meteor Lake & Emerald Rapids Support   Programming   2024-08-08
GhostWrite Vulnerability Affects RISC-V CPU, Mitigating Takes A ~77% Performance Hit   RISC-V   2024-08-07
GNU Binutils 2.43 Released With Intel APX Assembler Preparations & More   GNU   2024-08-04
Limine 8.0 Bootloader Released With LoongArch Support   Free Software   2024-08-03
oneAPI Construction Kit 4.0 Brings RISC-V Host CPU Support   Intel   2024-07-30
Linux 6.11-rc1 Released With Initial Intel Battlemage Support, AMD RDNA4 Primed   Linux Kernel   2024-07-28
Thanks Intel: RISC-V Sees NUMA Support For ACPI-Based Systems In Linux 6.11   RISC-V   2024-07-28
LLVM Clang 19 Branched, LLVM 20 Enters Development- No AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Merged Yet   LLVM   2024-07-23
LoongArch Enables More Kernel Features With Linux 6.11   Hardware   2024-07-23
XZ Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated, Drops "Jia Tan" As A Maintainer   Linux Kernel   2024-07-21
RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11   RISC-V   2024-07-21
Linux 6.11 MIPS Upstreams Realtek RTL9302C & Mobileye EyeQ6H Chips   Hardware   2024-07-20
Linux 6.11 Lands Support For Snapdragon X1 Elite ASUS Vivobook S15 & Lenovo Yoga Slim7x   Hardware   2024-07-19
Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support   Linux Networking   2024-07-17
Linux 6.10 Released With New Panthor Graphics Driver, Radeon Display Support On RISC-V   Linux Kernel   2024-07-14
The Most Interesting Linux 6.10 Features From MSEAL To Intel Xe2 Preparations   Linux Kernel   2024-07-14
Linux BSOD, NVIDIA Linux Excitement, Intel Sierra Forest & Other June Highlights   Phoronix   2024-07-01
RISC-V Memory Hot Plugging To Be Introduced With Linux 6.11   RISC-V   2024-06-30
Building Mesa On POWER Now Presents A Default Set Of OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers   Mesa   2024-06-21
Framework Laptop 13 To See A RISC-V Motherboard Option   Hardware   2024-06-18
NumPy 2.0 Brings Faster Performance Thanks To Intel's x86-simd-sort & Google's Highway   Programming   2024-06-17
Ubuntu Talks Up A RISC-V Octa-Core Laptop   RISC-V   2024-06-13
OpenCV 4.10 Released With Many DNN Improvements, Wayland Backend For Linux   Programming   2024-06-03
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May   Phoronix   2024-06-01
Dav1d 1.4.2 Provides More AVX2 & AVX-512 Performance Optimizations   Multimedia   2024-05-31
Yocto 5.0 LTS Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Boeing Joins The Project   Operating Systems   2024-05-30
Ubuntu 24.04 Now Available For The Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer   Ubuntu   2024-05-28
Linux Patches Posted For Enabling A 22 x 35 mm RISC-V / ARM Board   RISC-V   2024-05-27
Linux 6.10 On RISC-V Allows Configurable Boot Image Compression   RISC-V   2024-05-25
Coreboot 24.05 Released With 25 More Platforms - Including The Framework 13 AMD   Coreboot   2024-05-23
Newer AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Now Work On RISC-V With Linux 6.10   Linux Kernel   2024-05-23
RISC-V Now Supports Rust In The Linux Kernel   RISC-V   2024-05-22
Alpine Linux 3.20 Released With Initial 64-bit RISC-V Support   Operating Systems   2024-05-22
Linux 6.10 KVM Does More Prepping For Intel TDX   Virtualization   2024-05-22
Linux 6.10 Adds Support For The RISC-V Milk-V Mars & More SoC Additions   Hardware   2024-05-22
Box64 0.2.8 Released With Support For 16K Page Size - Allowing Games On Apple Silicon   Linux Gaming   2024-05-22
Hangover 9.9 Adds Support For Using The NTSYNC Driver   WINE   2024-05-21
Linus Torvalds Is Doing More ARM64 Linux Testing Now That He Has A More Powerful System   Linux Kernel   2024-05-14
Linux 6.10 Features Expected From The NTSYNC Driver To Performance Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2024-05-12
Intel Arc Graphics Demonstrated Running On ARM With Ampere Altra   Intel   2024-05-12
GCC 14.1 Compiler Released - Intel APX & AVX10.1 Support, AMD Zen 5 Target & -fhardened   GNU   2024-05-07
GCC 14.1 RC Compiler Available For Testing With AMD Znver5 Target & New C/C++ Features   GNU   2024-04-30
GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May   GNU   2024-04-26
QEMU 9.0 Released WIth True Multi-Queue Support For VirtIO Block Driver   Virtualization   2024-04-23
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Announced As New RISC-V Developer Board   RISC-V   2024-04-09
RISC-V Adding Kernel-Mode FPU For Linux 6.10 To Enable Recent AMD Display Support   RISC-V   2024-04-08
OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes   Programming   2024-04-05
FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI   Multimedia   2024-04-05
Zstd 1.5.6 Released - Celebrating Google Chrome Support For Zstandard Encoding   Free Software   2024-03-26
KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.9 Brings More Optimizations For Intel & AMD   Virtualization   2024-03-24
Linux 6.9 Adds New RISC-V Vector-Accelerated Crypto Routines   RISC-V   2024-03-22
LoongArch Enables More Kernel Functionality With Linux 6.9   Linux Kernel   2024-03-22
GhostRace Detailed - Speculative Race Conditions Affecting All Major CPUs / ISAs   Linux Security   2024-03-12
Awesome Changes Coming With Linux 6.9: Lots From Intel/AMD, FUSE Passthrough & More Rust   Linux Kernel   2024-03-10
LLVM/Clang 18.1 Released With Intel AVX10.1 Work, Adds Clearwater Forest & Panther Lake   LLVM   2024-03-06
Musl libc 1.2.5 Released With RISC-V 32-bit & LoongArch 64-bit Ports   Programming   2024-03-01
Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding   Hardware   2024-02-27
OpenZFS 2.2.3 Released With Numerous Fixes, Support For Linux 6.7~6.8 Kernels   Linux Storage   2024-02-22
dav1d 1.4 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations, RISC-V & LoongArch CPU Support   Multimedia   2024-02-17
Linux 6.9 To Allow RISC-V Kernel Builds With Clang Link-Time Optimizations   Linux Kernel   2024-02-13
Linux 6.8-rc4 Released With Bcachefs & NTFS3 File-System Fixes, Transmeta Crusoe Fix   Linux Kernel   2024-02-11
LLVM 18.1-rc1 Released For Enabling New Intel CPU Features, More C23 & C++23   LLVM   2024-01-29
GNU Binutils 2.42 Brings Support For New Intel CPU Extensions: APX, AVX10.1 & More   GNU   2024-01-29
StarFive RISC-V SoC's Camera Subsystem Driver Added To Linux 6.8   Multimedia   2024-01-21
Hangover Aiming For RISC-V Support This Year, x86_64 Emulation   WINE   2024-01-18
RISC-V With Linux 6.8 Restores XIP Kernel Support   RISC-V   2024-01-18
Linux 6.8 Adds New Gaming Handhelds, Google Tensor & Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 + X Elite SoCs   Arm   2024-01-11
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs   Linux Kernel   2024-01-07
Linux 6.8 To Add Support For The AMD MicroBlaze V Soft-Core RISC-V Processor   AMD   2024-01-06
Newlib 4.4 Released With Long Double Support On i386 / AArch64 / x86_64 & Xtensa Port   Programming   2024-01-04
Microsoft Continued Advancing WSL2, Mesa & Its In-House Linux Distro In 2023   Microsoft   2024-01-03
LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support   Virtualization   2023-12-24
QEMU 8.2 Released With New VirtIO-Sound & VirtIO-GPU "Rutabaga" Devices   Virtualization   2023-12-20
PoCL 5.0 Released With Transparent OpenCL Over Networked Systems Capability   Standards   2023-12-19
Sophgo SG2380 RISC-V SoC To Now Support Up To 96GB RAM, Additional PCIe & 25 GbE   Hardware   2023-12-17
Intel's New "Xe" Kernel Graphics Driver Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.8   Intel   2023-12-15
Intel Will Submit New Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Soon - Likely For Linux 6.8   Intel   2023-12-07
Fwupd 1.9.10 Adds LoongArch Support & Firmware Updating For A ~$1k USD Web Camera   LVFS   2023-12-04
Threadripper 7000 Series, Wayland, Linux 6.7 & Other November Highlights   Phoronix   2023-12-01
Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access   Debian   2023-11-25
SiFive Gets Newer AMD Radeon GPUs Working On RISC-V   Radeon   2023-11-22
GCC 14 Shifts From Feature Development To "General Bugfixing" Mode   GNU   2023-11-20
Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver   Intel   2023-11-11
RISC-V With Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks   RISC-V   2023-11-10
MIPS AR7 Platform Support Removed In Linux 6.7   Linux Kernel   2023-11-09
NVIDIA Pushes 62MB Of GSP Binary Firmware Blobs Into Linux-Firmware.Git   NVIDIA   2023-11-08
Hangover 8.19 Improves Box64 Integration For Running Windows Apps On AArch64 Wine   WINE   2023-11-06
Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7   Nouveau   2023-11-05
KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.7 Adds LoongArch, Up To 4096 x86 vCPUs   Virtualization   2023-11-03
Linux 6.7 Adds A Cross-Vendor Solution For Confidential Computing Attestation Reports   Virtualization   2023-11-03
AMD-Pensando Elba SoC & A Massive RISC-V 64-Core Chip Supported In Linux 6.7   Hardware   2023-11-02
Linux Patches Speed-Up Kernel Crypto Functions With RISC-V Vector Extensions   RISC-V   2023-10-28
Linux RISC-V Preparing For Real-Time Kernel Support (PREEMPT_RT)   RISC-V   2023-10-24
Milk-V Oasis Sounds Like An Interesting RISC-V Board With 16 Cores, Up To 64GB LPDDR5   Hardware   2023-10-22
Zlib-ng 2.1.4 Brings LoongArch Port, New RISC-V & ARM Optimizations   Free Software   2023-10-22
GCC 14 Feature Development Ends Next Month   GNU   2023-10-19
Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions   Programming   2023-10-18
Hangover 8.17 Released With Updated Box64 & FEX Integration   WINE   2023-10-09
Intel oneDNN 3.3 Brings More Performance Optimizations For Sapphire Rapids / AMX   Intel   2023-10-07
Linux Patches Updated For 64-Core RISC-V Milk-V Pioneer mATX Board   Hardware   2023-10-05
Mobileye EyeQ 5 SoC Support Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel   Hardware   2023-10-05
Loongson Preparing LoongArch KVM Virtualization For Linux 6.7   Virtualization   2023-10-02
Raspberry Pi 5, Steam Deck & New AMD CPUs Dominated Q3   Phoronix   2023-09-30
Milk-V Duo Linux Kernel Patches Submitted For This $9 RISC-V Board   RISC-V   2023-09-30
Mold 2.2 Linker Released With More Optimizations, BLAKE3 Crypto Hashing   Programming   2023-09-24
LLVM 17.0 + Clang 17.0 Released With Many New Compiler Features   LLVM   2023-09-19
RISC-V With Linux 6.6 Offers Better Kernel Security With KASLR   RISC-V   2023-09-10
AmpereOne Core PMU Perf Events Added For Linux 6.6   Linux Kernel   2023-09-10
LoongArch With Linux 6.6 Adds KGDB/KDB, KFence, KASAN, LBT Binary Translation   Hardware   2023-09-09
Linux 6.6 KVM Brings Intel & AMD Fixes, SEV-ES DebugSwap, New RISC-V Extensions   Virtualization   2023-09-08
Hangover 8.15 Released With Box64 Integration As PE Library   WINE   2023-09-05
OpenBLAS 0.3.24 Released With Intel Sapphire Rapids Improvements, Apple M2 Detection   Programming   2023-09-03
New RISC-V Kernel Features Ready For Linux 6.6   RISC-V   2023-09-01
Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other August Highlights   Phoronix   2023-09-01
Linux 6.6 Graphics Drivers: NVK uAPI, New AMD GPUs, More Meteor Lake, CI Support   Linux Kernel   2023-08-31
Many Features Ahead With Linux 6.6: EEVDF Scheduler, New AMD CPU Features, NVK uAPI   Linux Kernel   2023-08-27
Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs & MSI Z790-P Support   Coreboot   2023-08-25
QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements   Virtualization   2023-08-22
Linux 6.6 AMDGPU Driver To Expose Current & Average Power For Capable GPUs   Radeon   2023-08-21
Box64 0.2.4 Released - Some x86-64 Games Now Playable On RISC-V   Linux Gaming   2023-08-19
LoongArch "Loong64" Added To Debian Ports   Debian   2023-08-16