With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support.
This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise with the modern CentOS Stream being the upstream to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but now with RHEL10 for RISC-V in “developer preview” form, CentOS has announced their initial RISC-V support.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 developer preview, CentOS 10 Stream, and Fedora 42 are all focusing their initial RISC-V support on catering to the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 developer board.
CentOS announced yesterday on their blog:
“Red Hat’s approach was to focus on a single hardware platform and perform a full bootstrap of the operating system, starting from source code and going all the way up to a graphical desktop complete with a comprehensive set of developer-oriented tools. Dozens of packages required changes — ranging from the trivial to the quite substantial — to build and run successfully on riscv64, and we’re happy to report that the vast majority of these patches have landed into CentOS Stream’s dist-git already. A small handful of packages still require out-of-tree patches for one reason or another: the corresponding git trees will be made available on June 1st, 2025 together with the RHEL 10 disk image. The upstreaming process will obviously continue after that time.”
More details for those interested via the CentOS.org blog.
