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RISC-V ecosystem

The RISC-V ecosystem includes systems that boot with UEFI, handle power management with ACPI and run a variety of operating systems including Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.

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The RISC-V ecosystem includes systems that boot with UEFI, handle power management with ACPI and run a variety of operating systems including Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.

Notably missing software from the RISC-V ecosystem is Microsoft Windows, .NET, VirtualBox, and VMware ESXi.

Cloud providers with RISC-V servers include Scaleway and Cloud-V but not Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS).12

Hardware

Freedom U540 and HiFive Unleashed by SiFive.

ESP32 by Espressif Systems.

SpacemiT K3 by SpacemiT.

Assemblers

Bootloaders

Compilers

Debuggers

Decompilers

Disassemblers

Emulators

  • felix86 – x86-64 userspace emulator6
  • QEMU

Hypervisors

  • bhyve (FreeBSD)
  • KVM (Linux)
  • Intel Cloud Hypervisor
  • Xen7
  • XtratuM

Simulators

Operating systems

Embedded/real-time

Linux distributions

Misc

  • ACPI since version 6.6 (released in May 2025)
  • UEFI16
  • Armbian – Software Framework
  • Binary File Descriptor library – GNU support for multiple executable file formats
  • BLIS – Numerical software library
  • Buildroot – Tool for building Linux
  • GNU Binutils – GNU software development tools for executable code
  • glibc – GNU implementation of the standard C library
  • musl – Implementation of C standard library for Linux operating system
  • Newlib – Implementation of the C standard library for embedded systems
  • FFmpeg – Multimedia framework
  • Valgrind – Programming tool for profiling, memory debugging and memory leak detection
  • strace – Diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux
  • OpenBLAS – Open-source software17
  • OVPsim – Full-system simulator
  • TianoCore EDK II – Reference software implementation for UEFI
  • coreboot – Open-source computer firmware
  • Ada – High-level programming language first released in 1980 using GNAT
  • D – Multi-paradigm system programming language using GCC
  • Dart – Programming language18
  • Fortran – General-purpose programming language using GNU Fortran
  • CircuitPython – Programming language for embedded electronics
  • MicroPython – Microcontroller software based on Python
  • Snek19
  • Go – Programming language20
  • Julia – Dynamic programming language (tier 3)21
  • Rust – General-purpose programming language22
  • Java (HotSpot)23
  • Mono – Computer software project
  • Nim – Programming language
  • OCaml – Programming language
  • Zig – General-purpose programming language (tier 2)
References

References

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