Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization - Phoronix
Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization - Phoronix

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Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization

Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization - Phoronix
Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization
Why? The article doesn't really help.
Because Ubuntu is only supporting RISC-V chips that meat RVA23 standards. There's no consumer hardware out there yet released. RVA23 compliant hardware is supposed to be the big jump to be a solid alternative to ARM and x86 consumer hardware so that's what they want to support that going forward rather than the older more dev/experimental hardware that they'll still support on 24.04
But why? How is that useful for users? Why not make the switch when the hardware exists?