Riscv64

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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

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.