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Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support

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Following the official [1]Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware.

RISC-V images of Fedora 44 are now available for container, server, and cloud variants. The Fedora 44 RISC-V material is considered non-official and community-contributed alternate images currently with Fedora Linux.

The Fedora 44 Server images for RISC-V use a Linux 6.19 based kernel close to upstream and have been tested on the Vision Five 2, Orange Pi RV, and Milk-V Mars.

New to Fedora 44 is having an "Omni" kernel build with the Fedora-Server-Host-Omni images rather than the Fedora-Server-Host-Generic. The "Omni" kernel in Fedora RISC-V land aims to support a broader set of RISC-V boards, including in cases of not yet having all the necessary patches in the upstream Linux kernel.

The Omni kernel with Fedora 44 is able to boot on the following RISC-V boards: Banana Pi BPI-F3, Bit-Brick K1, DeepComputing fml13v01, Lichee Pi 4A, Milk-V Jupiter, Milk-V Mars, Milk-V Megrez, Milk-V Titan, OrangePi R2S, OrangePi RV, OrangePi RV2, Pine64 STARPro64, SiFive HiFive P550, SiFive HiFive Unmatched, SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX, StarFive VisionFive 2, StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite.

With the Omni kernel it's quite a nice list with the [2]SpacemiT K3 , [3]SiFive HiFive Premier P550 , [4]Orange Pi RV2 , and others. Meanwhile with the latest Ubuntu Linux RISC-V builds limited to the RVA23 profile, their current range of hardware support is very limited.

More details on today's Fedora 44 RISC-V images released via [5]Fedora Discourse .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Fedora+44

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/spacemit-k3-pico-itx

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/review/sifive-hifive-premier-p550

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/review/orange-pi-rv2-benchmarks

[5] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-44-risc-v-non-official-images-are-available/193356



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