RHEL 10.2 Developer Preview for RISC-V
Access a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 on the popular SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer platform. This is our second release of the developer preview that was first announced at Red Hat Summit 2025. This new release contains more of the upstream code specifically for that platform as well as incremental upstream updates for support of the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Red Hat continues to work to integrate RISC-V support into the upstream community.
Overview
Red Hat is encouraged to see RISC-V rapidly developing as an open standards project. Open standard hardware will naturally foster an ecosystem of open source software, and an open CPU architecture is a cornerstone of an open hardware platform.
In addition to the refresh of the code base from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 to 10.2, the RISC-V team also included as much of the upstream code that has been accepted by the community as possible. This code may enable a number of additional systems to boot and run the RHEL 10.2 Developer Preview. Some members of the community have successfully booted the RHEL 10.2 RISC-V Developer Preview image on boards with the StarFive JH7110 and UltraRISC DP1000 processors, as well as QEMU, but compatibility with those systems is experimental and some tinkering will be required to get the image to run at all. It is important to note that drivers for onboard graphics are not included and the only hardware that has been tested by Red Hat is the SiFive HiFive Premier P550.
Our intention with this early access release is to give you an advanced look at what’s possible with RISC-V for your IT infrastructure, as well as edge or embedded applications.
Red Hat believes that early access to a developer preview of RHEL on such a popular platform as the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 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
Red Hat is an enthusiastic member of RISE, the RISC-V Infrastructure Software Ecosystem project from the Linux Foundation. RISE's charter is to accelerate the software readiness timeline for RISC-V. RISE is the industry’s mission-critical engine for software parity, ensuring that the foundational software stack—from the kernel to the cloud—is optimized, upstreamed, and ready for high-end computing. 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.
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