RHEL Developer Preview for RISC-V
Access a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on the popular SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer platform. Announced at Red Hat Summit 2025, this early access release gives you a first look at what’s possible with RISC-V for your IT infrastructure, as well as edge or embedded applications.
Overview
Such early adoption of an emerging Instruction Set Architecture is unusual for an enterprise vendor such as Red Hat, but Red Hat is encouraged to see RISC-V developing as an open source project. Open source hardware will naturally foster an ecosystem of open source software, and an open CPU architecture is a cornerstone of an open hardware platform. RISC-V adoption is a choice that the market will make based on each segment's own criteria. Red Hat simply supports that choice and follows our own mission to enable open source.
Red Hat believes that early access to a developer preview of RHEL on such a popular platform is an example of the innovation that both companies represent to the industry. Customers who are evaluating RISC-V will be able to use this developer preview as a guide to the relevance of this technology to their IT infrastructure as well as edge or embedded applications.
Red Hat and RISE
This developer preview is one of Red Hat's contributions to RISE, the RISC-V Infrastructure Software Ecosystem project from the Linux Foundation. This industry group guides the specification and development of the Infrastructure Software Ecosystem for RISC-V system implementations. RISE's goal is to streamline infrastructure software availability to bring a faster time to market for RISC-V-based designs.
Documentation
Access documentation for initial deployment as well as a number of solutions to platform updates that may be required during development.
