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RISC-V Articles & Reviews

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

LLVM's libc Gets Much Faster memcpy For RISC-V   LLVM   2023-05-21
New Maintainer Steps Up For GCC Compiler's MIPS CPU Port   GNU   2023-05-18
Loongson Begins Posting Linux Patches For 3A6000 Series CPUs   Hardware   2023-05-16
Intel Linux Graphics Driver Affected By Privilege Escalation Vulnerability   Intel   2023-05-09
PipeWire Audio Backend Comes To QEMU   Virtualization   2023-05-09
RISC-V With Linux 6.4 Adds Hibernation / Suspend-To-Disk Support   RISC-V   2023-05-06
LoongArch With Linux 6.4 Lands Optimizations, New Functionality   Linux Kernel   2023-05-05
Linux 6.4 Has Many Networking Changes From A New Performance Tunable To More WiFi 7   Linux Networking   2023-05-01
Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released   Debian   2023-04-29
100+ More ASUS Motherboards Enabled For Sensor Monitoring With Linux 6.4   Hardware   2023-04-26
GCC 13.1 Released With Modula-2 Language Support, More C23/C++23 Features   GNU   2023-04-26
Initial Apple M2 Support & Other 64-bit ARM Changes For Linux 6.4   Arm   2023-04-25
QEMU 8.0 Released With 32-bit x86 Host Support Deprecated   Virtualization   2023-04-19
Wasmer 3.2 Released With WebAssembly On RISC-V Support, New WCGI Feature   Programming   2023-04-18
Solus Linux Plans New Direction Built Off Serpent OS   Operating Systems   2023-04-18
Intel's OpenGL & Vulkan Linux Drivers Now Build On ARM   Intel   2023-04-17
LLVM 16.0.1 Released With Many Compiler Fixes, Backports AMD Zen 4 Scheduler Model   LLVM   2023-04-05
Intel oneDNN 3.1 Further Optimizing For Sapphire Rapids, Starts Tuning For Sierra Forest   Intel   2023-03-31
LLVM 17 Lands Initial Support For RISC-V Vector Crypto Extension ISA   LLVM   2023-03-26
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Begins Rolling Out GCC 13   GNU   2023-03-24
Proxmox VE 7.4 Released With Linux 5.15 LTS + Linux 6.2 Support, New Dark Theme   Operating Systems   2023-03-23
LLVM 16.0 Released With New Intel/AMD CPU Support, More C++20 / C2X Features   LLVM   2023-03-18
Mold 1.11 High Performance Linker Released With Initial POWER10 Support   Programming   2023-03-16
GCC 13 Adds RISC-V T-Head Vendor Extension Collection   RISC-V   2023-03-15
ASUS Unveils The Tinker V As Their First RISC-V Board   Hardware   2023-03-14
Box86 v0.3 & Box64 v0.2.2 Released For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Arm   Free Software   2023-03-10
Hangover 0.8.3 Released For Enjoying Windows x86/x86_64 Apps/Games On Linux ARM64   WINE   2023-03-09
Ubuntu Announces Official Support For The PolarFire SoC FPGA Icicle Kit RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2023-03-08
RISC-V Auto-Vectorization Support For The GCC Compiler Started   GNU   2023-03-03
Many KVM Updates Land In Linux 6.3   Virtualization   2023-03-02
New ARM/RISC-V SoC Power Management Drivers Arrive For Linux 6.3   Linux Kernel   2023-03-02
LoongArch With Linux 6.3 Enhances Security With KASLR   Linux Kernel   2023-03-01
FFmpeg 6.0 Released With NVIDIA NVENC AV1, VA-API Improvements   Multimedia   2023-02-28
Armbian 23.02 ARM/RISC-V OS Released With Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel   Operating Systems   2023-02-27
Mesa 23.1 Gets Basic LoongArch Support   Mesa   2023-02-27
Linux 6.3 Crypto Brings ARIA AVX2/AVX-512, TRNG Driver For StarFive SoCs   Hardware   2023-02-26
RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension   RISC-V   2023-02-25
Microsoft .NET Runtime Lands Initial Code For RISC-V Support   RISC-V   2023-02-22
Linux 6.3 Introduces IPv4 "BIG TCP" To Improve High Speed Network Performance   Linux Networking   2023-02-21
Plans Being Drafted To Upstream Intel's New "Xe" Linux Graphics Driver   Intel   2023-02-20
Linux Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization "KASLR" For RISC-V   RISC-V   2023-02-16
RISC-V Linux Patches Start On "zisslpcfi" Support For Control-Flow Integrity   RISC-V   2023-02-13
AOM AV1 3.6 Brings More Performance & Efficiency Optimizations   Multimedia   2023-02-08
FFmpeg 6.0 Will Be Big With AV1 Hardware Decoding, Many Other Features   Multimedia   2023-02-06
Go 1.20 Released With Preview PGO Support, CPU Architecture Feature Build Flags   Programming   2023-02-01
New Patches Wire Up ACPI Support For RISC-V On Linux   Linux Kernel   2023-01-30
Fedora 38 Cleared To Ship With Its Bleeding Edge Compiler Toolchain   Fedora   2023-01-30
LLVM 16.0-rc1 Brings New AMD & Intel CPU Support, Zstd Debug Sections, C++17 By Default   LLVM   2023-01-28
FreeBSD Ends 2022 Short Of Fundraising Goal But Continues Driving New Features   BSD   2023-01-26
LLVM 16.0 Feature Development Ends - Aiming For Early March Compiler Release   LLVM   2023-01-25
GCC 13 Progresses To Stage 4 "Regression Fixes Only" Development   GNU   2023-01-16
GNU Binutils 2.40 Released With AMD Zen 4 & Upcoming Intel Instructions, Zstd Support   GNU   2023-01-14
RISC-V Hibernation Support / Suspend-To-Disk Nears The Linux Kernel   RISC-V   2023-01-09
Mold 1.9 Released With Support For More CPU Architectures   Programming   2023-01-06
Kalray Posts Initial Patches For Bringing Up Linux On Their KV3-1 "Coolidge" DPU SoC   Hardware   2023-01-03
GNU Binutils 2.40 Branched With Zstd Support, Zen 4, New Intel Instructions   GNU   2023-01-02
Allwinner D1/D1s Platform Support Moves Closer To Mainline Linux   Hardware   2023-01-01
Linux 6.1.2 Closed Out 2022 With Many Backported Fixes   Linux Kernel   2023-01-01
RISC-V Adds Support For Persistent Memory Devices In Linux 6.2   RISC-V   2022-12-17
QEMU 7.2 Released With TCG AVX/AVX2, Better 9pfs Performance   Virtualization   2022-12-15
Armbian 22.11 Released With RISC-V 64-bit UEFI Build Support, New Arm Boards   Operating Systems   2022-12-05
Intel Hosting oneAPI AI/HPC Developer Summit Next Week   Intel   2022-11-29
Intel Mesa Driver Changes Land For Building On Non-x86 CPUs   Intel   2022-11-23
Wasmer 3.0 Released As The Latest "Universal WebAssembly Runtime"   Programming   2022-11-21
Ubuntu Bring-Up Happening For The StarFive VisionFive 2 RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2022-11-21
Box64 0.2 Gets DXVK 2.0 Running, Many Other Improvements For Emulating x86_64 On Arm   Linux Gaming   2022-11-17
QEMU 7.2-rc1 Released - TCG For AVX/AVX2, Massive 9pfs Performance Improvement   Virtualization   2022-11-16
LibreOffice Enables RISC-V 64-bit Support   RISC-V   2022-11-11
Linux 6.2 To Introduce Allwinner A100 & D1 Display Support   Linux Kernel   2022-11-10
LLVM/Clang 16 Adds Support For -mcpu=native & -mtune=native On RISC-V   RISC-V   2022-11-09
Intel Clarifies HECI Usage For Arc Graphics' GSC   Intel   2022-11-04
Intel's Open-Source Arc Graphics Driver Not Yet Working On POWER Hardware   Intel   2022-11-03
MotorComm YT8521 Gigabit Ethernet Support Coming For Linux 6.2   Linux Networking   2022-11-01
systemd 252 Released With systemd-measure, Other Improvements   systemd   2022-10-31
Nouveau Linux DRM Driver Making Progress On NVIDIA GSP Support   Nouveau   2022-10-26
Ubuntu 22.10 Up And Running On The LicheeRV ~$19 RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2022-10-25
Ubuntu 22.10 Released With GNOME 43 Desktop, Raspberry Pi Improvements, PipeWire Audio   Ubuntu   2022-10-20
systemd 252-rc2 Released With More Changes To This Key Linux Component   systemd   2022-10-19
Google Announces KataOS As Security-Focused OS, Leveraging Rust & seL4 Microkernel   Google   2022-10-16
LoongArch Picks Up New CPU Capabilities With Linux 6.1   Hardware   2022-10-13
Picolibc 1.7.9 Adds Support For More CPU Targets   Programming   2022-10-13
RISC-V Adds Support For CD-ROM Images To Its Default Linux 6.1 Kernel Configuration   RISC-V   2022-10-12
LoongArch EFI Boot, Prep For EFI Confidential Compute Arrive For Linux 6.1   Linux Kernel   2022-10-10
Open-Source Firmware Conference 2022 Slides & Videos Online   Linux Events   2022-10-05
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, Linux 6.0, MGLRU, Rust & IO_uring Made For An Exciting September   Phoronix   2022-10-01
Ubuntu 22.10 Beta Released For Linux 5.19 + GNOME 43 Powered Linux Desktop   Ubuntu   2022-09-30
Intel oneDNN 2.7 Released With Sapphire Rapids & DG2 Optimizations, AMD GPU Bringup   Intel   2022-09-28
High-Speed Mold 1.5 Linker Released With PPC64LE, SPARC64 & RISC-V BE Targets   Programming   2022-09-27
Generic EFI Compressed Boot Support Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1   Linux Kernel   2022-09-25
OpenJDK Java 19 Released With RISC-V Linux Port, Foreign Function API   Programming   2022-09-20
LLVM 15.0.1 Released With Nearly Three Dozen Fixes   LLVM   2022-09-20
Loongson Preparing Linux For LoongArch Laptops   Linux Kernel   2022-09-19
Ubuntu 22.10 Aiming To Support The $16+ Sipeed LicheeRV RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2022-09-16
LLVM 15.0 Released With Security Features, Experimental DirectX Back-End, New AMD GPUs   LLVM   2022-09-06
Linux 6.0-rc4 Released With Various Driver Fixes   Linux Kernel   2022-09-04
QEMU 7.1 Released With LoongArch Support, Zero-Copy-Send Migration   Virtualization   2022-08-31
UEFI 2.10 + ACPI 6.5 Specifications Released With Updates For CXL, LoongArch, RISC-V   Hardware   2022-08-29
Linux 6.0-rc3 Released In Marking 31 Years Since Linus Torvalds Announced It   Linux Kernel   2022-08-28
Imagination PowerVR Rogue DRM Linux Kernel Driver Out For Review   Linux Kernel   2022-08-23
Ubuntu Now Supports The Allwinner D1 Powered Nezha RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2022-08-22
Experimental Patches Allow Much Faster AArch64 & RISC-V Kexec Kernel Reboots   Linux Kernel   2022-08-22
GCC 12.2 Compiler Released With 70+ Bug Fixes   GNU   2022-08-19
Official Ubuntu RISC-V Images Released For StarFive's VisionFive Board   Ubuntu   2022-08-17
Linux 6.0-rc1 Released With Exciting Performance Optimizations, New Hardware Support   Linux Kernel   2022-08-14
RISC-V Lands New Extensions In Linux 6.0   RISC-V   2022-08-13
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Released   Ubuntu   2022-08-11
Loongson Adds LoongArch Support To LibreOffice   LibreOffice   2022-08-11
OpenBLAS 0.3.21 Brings Support For Newer Arm CPUs, More Optimizations   Programming   2022-08-08
RISC-V With Linux 6.0 Improves Svpbmt, More Useful Default Kernel Configuration   RISC-V   2022-08-07
OpenRISC Enables PCI Support With Linux 6.0   Linux Kernel   2022-08-06
Linux 6.0 KVM Brings Intel IPI Virtualization, AMD x2AVIC   Virtualization   2022-08-04
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Preparing For Release With Retbleed Patched, Intel AMX, Other Fixes   Ubuntu   2022-08-03
Systemd Creator At Microsoft, Retbleed, Rust's Continued Growth & Other July Highlights   Phoronix   2022-08-01
Linux 5.20 To Bring New Intel & AMD Hardware Support, IO_uring Features & Much More   Linux Kernel   2022-07-29
GCC 12.2 Compiler Being Prepared For An August Release   GNU   2022-07-29
LLVM 16 Enabling Scalable Vectorization By Default For RISC-V   LLVM   2022-07-29
QEMU 7.1 Being Prepared With LoongArch Support, More RISC-V Features   Virtualization   2022-07-27
RISC-V Default Linux Kernel Configuration Tweaked So It's Easier Running Docker, Snaps   RISC-V   2022-07-25
The First RISC-V Laptop Announced With Quad-Core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux Support   RISC-V   2022-07-01
Rust For Linux, -O3'ing The Kernel & Other Highlights From June   Phoronix   2022-07-01
RISC-V Announces Initial Batch Of 2022 Specifications: SBI, UEFI, Zmmul, E-Trace   RISC-V   2022-06-21
Think Silicon Shows Off First RISC-V 3D GPU   RISC-V   2022-06-21
FreeBSD Developers Continue Work On Shortening Boot Time, Improving WiFi Driver Support   BSD   2022-06-16
Ubuntu Working To Provide Good Support For The VisionFive Low-Cost RISC-V Board   Ubuntu   2022-06-10
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Makes Progress On Driver Porting, Plans For Usable RISC-V Images   Operating Systems   2022-06-09
SDL Adds Initial Support For LoongArch   Linux Gaming   2022-06-08
LoongArch CPU Support Merged For Linux 5.19 - But It Won't Work For A Booting System Yet   Linux Kernel   2022-06-03
Linux 5.19 Adding Support For The PolarBerry RISC-V FPGA Board   RISC-V   2022-06-03
IO_uring Continues Advancing In 2022 With New Features For Pushing Linux I/O   Linux Storage   2022-06-01
Google Launches New Silicon Design Portal For Open-Source Projects   Google   2022-06-01
RISC-V With Linux 5.19 Allows Running RV32 32-bit Binaries On RV64, Adds Svpbmt   RISC-V   2022-06-01
LoongArch CPU Port Might Still Land For Linux 5.19   Linux Kernel   2022-05-30
Linux 5.19 KVM & Xen Changes Readied For This Next Kernel   Virtualization   2022-05-26
Linux 5.19 Will Be Super Exciting For Intel Customers, Many Other Features Expected   Linux Kernel   2022-05-22
RISC-V With Linux 5.19 Preps "COMPAT" Mode For 32-bit Apps On 64-bit Kernels & More   RISC-V   2022-05-21
An Open-Source Firmware Virtual Beer Event Is Happening Next Week   Coreboot   2022-05-21
FreeBSD 13.1 Released With UEFI Boot Enhancements, Driver Improvements   BSD   2022-05-16
LoongArch Patches Updated A Tenth Time For The Linux Kernel   Linux Kernel   2022-05-14
MIPS Claims "Best-In-Class Performance" With New RISC-V eVocore CPUs   RISC-V   2022-05-10
GCC 12.1 Compiler Released With AVX-512 FP16, Better RISC-V Support, More C++23 Features   GNU   2022-05-06
FreeBSD 13.1-RC6 Released Due To Lingering Bugs   BSD   2022-05-06
GNU Debugger 12.1 Released With Multi-Threaded Symbol Loading By Default   GNU   2022-05-02
LoongArch Patches Posted Again For Trying To Get This Chinese MIPS-Derived CPU In Linux   Linux Kernel   2022-04-30
Yocto 4.0 Released For Embedded/IoT Linux Software Stack   Operating Systems   2022-04-27
Intel Preps Some Big Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 5.19   Intel   2022-04-27
LLVM 14.0.2 Released With The Compiler Moving To Bi-Weekly Releases   LLVM   2022-04-27
OpenBSD 7.1 Released With Apple Silicon Support "Ready", AMD RDNA2 Graphics   BSD   2022-04-21
GCC 11.3 Released With Nearly 200 Bug Fixes   GNU   2022-04-21
QEMU 7.0 Released With Intel AMX Support, Many RISC-V Additions   Virtualization   2022-04-20
Box86 0.2.6 / Box64 0.1.8 Released With Working Steam & Steam Play On Non-x86 CPUs   Free Software   2022-04-16