Ubuntu on RISC-V (UPDATEDx2)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 17, 2022,
updated Aug 20, 2022

• Ubuntu Is Now Officially Supported on StarFive’s VisionFive RISC-V Single-Board Computers - 9to5Linux

  Canonical today announced official support for its popular Ubuntu operating system on StarFive’s VisionFive RISC-V single-board computers.

  The RISC-V hardware is becoming more and more popular, and Canonical has partnered with StarFive, the leader in RISC-V technology in China known for developing a wide range of RISC-V-based products, including CPU IP, SoC, development boards, etc., to offer Ubuntu on the VisionFive SBC (single-board computer).

  Powered by StarFive’s JH7100 vision processing SoC, which is equipped with a high-performance 64-bit RISC-V dual-core processor with a 2 MB L2 cache and 1.0 GHz clock speeds, the VisionFive board comes with no less than 8 GB RAM, a 40-pin GPIO header, as well as end-to-end hardware and software infrastructure.

• Canonical enables Ubuntu on StarFive’s VisionFive RISC-V boards

  In the last decade, open source and open standards have reshaped our world. Such technologies have produced long-lasting results, and the RISC-V consortium has extended open source to develop a standard open-source processor architecture. The release of RISC-V to the open community marked the first time the hardware community embraced open-source standards and collaboration at this level.

  This free and open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) can enable a new era of processor innovation through open-standard collaboration with rapid industry-wide adoption. The RISC-V ISA delivers a new level of free, extensible software and hardware freedom on architecture. The architecture can be applied to a broad range of processors, from low-end microcontrollers to high-end server-grade processors.

• Official Ubuntu RISC-V Images Released For StarFive's VisionFive Board - Phoronix

  Earlier this summer I wrote about Canonical working to provide good support for StarFive's VisionFive low-cost RISC-V board. That work has now culminated with an Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS image for use on this Chinese RISC-V single board computer.

UPDATE

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) has more.

• StarFive VisionFive V1 RISC-V SBC gets Ubuntu 22.04.1 Server image from Canonical - CNX Software

  Canonical has been working on RISC-V support for Ubuntu for a while and released Ubuntu 20.04/21.04 64-bit RISC-V images for QEMU and HiFive boards last year. Now the company has released an Ubuntu 22.04.1 Server image for the StarFive VisionFive V1 RISC-V single board computer.

  While that’s a good development, The VisionFive V1, and other RISC-V platforms, are nowhere close to being Ubuntu-certified hardware, and Canonical posted a note reading “It is an early RISC-V developer access through Ubuntu 22.04.1.”

Now Brad covers it.

• Now you can run Ubuntu on a VisionFive single-board PC with a RISC-V processor

  Aimed at developers that want to get their feet wet working with RISC-V architecture, when the board first launched late last year it supported Fedora Linux, Yocto, Buildroot, FreeRTOS, and Zephyr. Now you can also run Ubuntu on VisionFive boards.