A Fedora developer shares experiences with RISC-V porting, revealing significant performance challenges. Build times for RISC-V packages are substantially slower than other architectures - 143 minutes versus 29 minutes for x86_64. The article highlights hardware limitations and discusses upcoming RISC-V SoCs that may improve the situation.
Background
RISC-V is an open-source instruction set architecture gaining traction as an alternative to ARM and x86. Fedora Linux has been porting to RISC-V to support the growing ecosystem of RISC-V hardware.
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- Lobsters
- Published
- Mar 11, 2026 at 03:49 AM
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- 6.0 / 10