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RISC-V is one of the architectures that Alpine Linux supports, with the first stable release to support it being 3.20. Standard ISO images have been available since 3.23 here.

QEMU

Without U-Boot, x86_64 host
With U-Boot

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.

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-RISC-V is one of the [[architecture]]s that Alpine Linux supports, with the first stable release to support it being 3.20.
+RISC-V is one of the [[architecture]]s that Alpine Linux supports, with the first stable release to support it being 3.20. Standard ISO images have been available since 3.23 [https://alpinelinux.org/downloads/ here].
-== Download ==
-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]
-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 ==