Fedora

Fedora runs an official RISC-V SIG with continuous builds, but the project still labels riscv64 "not officially supported" and ships images through the alt channel. It works fine day to day; its support level is simply not the same as Debian or Ubuntu.

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The official Fedora wiki states: "riscv64 is currently not an officially supported Fedora architecture". Images are maintained by the Fedora RISC-V SIG under dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/risc-v/ (an alt tree, not a primary architecture) and do not take part in release blocking.

Versions

44 (stable, RISC-V images available) · 45 (Beta/RC, RISC-V images labelled "non-official, community-contributed") · rawhide

Doc languages

en

Derivatives

Fedora-V Force (FVF)、Fedora Remix for RISC-V

Checked

2026-11-01

• QEMU virt (virtual machine) Official Officially supported with the mainline kernel (QEMU entry on the Hardware page)
• SiFive HiFive Unmatched Partial SiFive Unmatched is not on the Hardware page (only Premier P550 is)
• StarFive VisionFive 2 Official Officially supported under the StarFive JH7110 entry; use the mainline kernel if you don't need NVMe/PCIe
• LicheePi 4A Partial LicheePi 4A / TH1520 are not on the Hardware page
• Milk-V Meles Partial Milk-V Meles is not on the Hardware page
• SpacemiT K3 (Pico-ITX / CoM260) Official SpacemiT K3 entry: K3 Pico-ITX, Milk-V Jupiter 2, K3-CoM260, DC-ROMA III (FML13V05)
• Zhihe A210 (XuanTie MelonPi dev board) Partial Zhihe A210 is not on the Hardware page
• Canaan K230 (Kendryte K230 / CanMV-K230) Partial Canaan K230 is not on the Hardware page
• Milk-V Megrez (ESWIN EIC7700X) Official Officially supported under the ESWIN EIC7700X entry (Milk-V Megrez, HiFive Premier P550)
• Milk-V Titan (UltraRISC DP1000) Official Officially supported under the UltraRISC UR-DP1000 entry (Milk-V Titan)
• Milk-V Pioneer (SG2042, server-oriented) Official Officially supported under the SOPHGO SG2042 entry (Milk-V Pioneer)
• Orange Pi RV2 (Ky X1) Official Officially supported under the SpacemiT M1/K1 entry (covers Orange Pi RV 2, BPI-F3, Milk-V Jupiter)
• Banana Pi BPI-F3 (SpacemiT K1) Official Officially supported under the SpacemiT M1/K1 entry (Banana Pi BPI-F3)

• Fedora RISC-V installation guide (wiki) Doc en
• Fedora RISC-V supported hardware list (wiki) Doc en
• Fedora/RISC-V project home (wiki) Doc en

• Most boards need the Omni kernel (...riscv64.omni.fcXX); the standard 7.x kernel only covers the VisionFive 2 / Orange Pi RV / Milk-V Mars class — "Most boards can only boot when using the Omni kernel"
• Some Omni kernel patches are not upstream yet ("Some patches in this kernel are still under review upstream")
• Headless only: mainline has no integrated GPU driver, and the project positions this as a build machine/server ("video output are pretty much completely ignored")
• Installation requires a serial console (Requirements → Serial console access)
• Some packages need RISC-V-specific patches and still differ from upstream sources

Hands-on records from RuyiSDK, board by board. Open a report for the full install steps and verdict.

Status meanings: good — fully usable (desktop boots); basic — basic system (serial console works); part — partial functionality; cft — image exists, needs verification; cfh — documented as supported but fails to boot; cfi — claimed supported, no image; wip — announced only.

• dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/risc-v/releases/
• dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/risc-v/fedora-remix/
• fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V/Installing
• fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V/Hardware
• fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/RISC-V
• matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/Bit-Brick_K1/Fedora/README/
• matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/BPI-F3/Fedora/README/
• matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/K230/Fedora/README/
• matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/LicheeCluster4A/Fedora/README/
• matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/LicheePi4A/Fedora/README/
• matrix.ruyisdk.org/reports/Mars/Fedora/README/
• matrix.ruyisdk.org/

The full source list and how each claim is judged: Sources