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== Download ==
== Download ==
Alpine's RISC-V port currently does not have a standard ISO image like with x86_64 and aarch64.
Alpine's RISC-V port will have a standard ISO image starting with the upcoming version 3.23.[https://irclogs.alpinelinux.org/%23alpine-infra-2025-10.log]
However, minimal root filesystems and [https://u-boot.org/ U-Boot] images are available [https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ here].
For now, minimal root filesystems and [https://u-boot.org/ U-Boot] images are available [https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ here].
 
It is worth noting that you can use [[How to make a custom ISO image with mkimage|mkimage]] to build a standard ISO image for riscv64 yourself.[https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/90444]


== QEMU ==
== QEMU ==

Latest revision as of 13:26, 25 October 2025

This material is work-in-progress ...

This should be expanded later.
(Last edited by AnIDFB on 25 Oct 2025.)

RISC-V is one of the architectures that Alpine Linux supports, with the first stable release to support it being 3.20.

Download

Alpine's RISC-V port will have a standard ISO image starting with the upcoming version 3.23.[1] For now, minimal root filesystems and U-Boot images are available here.

It is worth noting that you can use mkimage to build a standard ISO image for riscv64 yourself.[2]

QEMU

Contribute

  • Test out the port and report the bugs you find.
  • Write and improve guides about the port.
  • Fix packages that are buggy or don't work on RISC-V.

This section is based on this IRC conversation from 2025-10-01.