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Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10 (9to5linux.com)
submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Hm. They also plan on dropping support for 90% of existing RISC-V systems.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Just the old standards, RVA20 and below. RVA23 is the current standard, and they're just moving ahead with that because it's kind of pointless to keep all the other compilation cruft around when nobody is going to use it.

[–] disco@lemdro.id 5 points 3 days ago

Whatever it supports I bet Jeff Geerling is on it

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

There isn't really any RVA22 hardware you'd really want to run a desktop on anyway, so it's a very logical decision. RVA23 is a much more sensible base - it requires Vector and Hypervisor.