In a surprise move, NVIDIA is bringing CUDA to RISC-V CPUs
Announced at RISC-V Summit China , this allows RISC-V processors to run CUDA drivers + logic, with NVIDIA GPUs handling compute tasks
Enables open CPU + proprietary GPU AI systems—big for edge, HPC & China’s chipmakers
A potential shift in global AI infrastructure
#Debian13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal #RISCV Support But Still Bound By Slow Hardware
#Debian's RISC-V ambitions date back a decade when thfirst #RISCV64 port was started for Debian and then after all the work over the years, Debian 13.0 in August will finally debut it as an official architecture. #RV64GC is the current target for Debian RISC-V and using UEFI-based booting as the default. Over seventeen thousand source Debian packages are building for RISC-V with Trixie.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-RISC-V-Ready
OrangePi RV2: The New Reference SBC for RISC-V Enthusiasts: https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-rv2-new-risc-v-board-review/
#linux #update #release #hardware #review #riscv #orangepi #sbc #alternative
「 With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian "Trixie" release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture 」
Building Olimex's EUR 1.00 RISC-V Retro Like PC and exploring RISC-V instruction set with WozMon by Benard Mesander https://needlesscomplexity.substack.com/p/building-the-olimex-rvpc-retrocomputer7 #riscv #retrocomputing #assembler
By Anton Shilov for @TomsHardware - #NVIDIA #CUDA now supports #RISCV - is this a signal of broader ecosystem support?
The RISC-V community is very active in Fedora. Initial support for RISC-V in @centos was started from Fedora and they just want to keep on trucking!
If you want to learn more about how our open OS is meeting their open architecture, check out their Matrix room!
Learn more: https://blog.centos.org/2025/05/initial-centos-support-for-risc-v/
The RISC-V ISA specification defines RV64G as an alias for RV64IMAFDZicsr_Zifencei. Since pronouncing the True Name of the instruction set will summon a silicon demon from the beyond to torment you.
ICYMI: Canonical partners with ESWIN for new RISC-V SBC with support for Ubuntu 24.04 - but it won't be able to run Ubuntu 25.10 or later.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/eswin-ebc77-risc-v-sbc-ubuntu-24-04-support?v2
#NVIDIA Bringing #CUDA To #RISCV
NVIDIA's drivers and CUDA software stack are predominantly supported on x86_64 and AArch64 systems but in the past was supported on IBM POWER. This week at the RISC-V Summit China event, NVIDIA's Frans Sijstermans announced that CUDA will be coming to RISC-V.
#AMD for their part with the upstream #opensource #AMDKFD kernel compute driver can already build on RISC-V and the #ROCm user-space components can also be built on RISC-V.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-Coming-To-RISC-V
#RISCV is now fast enough to run *Crysis* in an *emulator*?! Wow! How's the frame rate?
Also, I see a lot of complaints in that thread about GPU availability. Wasn't there a project to make a RISC-V GPU?
The long awaited Black Magic Debug V2.0.0 release is finally here! It is a big update with a lot of improvements and newly supported targets. It pairs very well with bmputil, make sure to give it a try! See release notes for more details. Thanks to everyone who contributed! https://github.com/blackmagic-debug/blackmagic/releases/tag/v2.0.0 Discuss: https://github.com/blackmagic-debug/blackmagic/discussions/2133 #opensource #debugger #electronics #jtag #swd #arm #riscv
felix86 emulator for Linux for x86 and x86-64 apps on RISC-V can now run Steam and major games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/felix86-emulator-for-linux-for-x86-and-x86-64-apps-on-risc-v-can-now-run-steam-and-major-games/
Asm Editor is a web app IDE for learning, developing, and running x86, M68K, RISC-V, and MIPS Assembly code. It features an editor, assembler, and debugger, as well as other tools and learning resources.
Interessantes Projekt - Supercluster
Risc-V: Ich habe zu Hause eine GPU gebaut
A #RiscV SBC connected to a #Reticulum LoRa rnode.
The SBC runs Debian and nomadnet thanks to https://github.com/scpcom/sophgo-sg200x-debian .
Power consumption is about 1.5 watts, but could certainly be better with a nRF52840 based rnode.
This week's Linux and FOSS news:
LINUX NEWS
openSUSE considering to drop 32-bit ARM support, announced a survey to ask users whether they still rely on 32-bit ARM hardware support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Deciding-32-bit-ARM
(I think it's a good thing that at least they ask their users directly, and don't just drop the proposal if there's a strong pushback like what Fedora did.)
KDE Frameworks 6.16 released with improved recognition of the most powerful GPU, support for showing the newest files first in open/save dialogs, inertial scrolling (a.k.a. kinetic scrolling) for all scrollable views in all QtQuick-based KDE applications when scrolled using a touchpad, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-16-improves-plasmas-ability-to-detect-the-most-powerful-gpu
Ubuntu 24.10 reaches EOL, upgrading to 25.04 is recommended:
https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-reached-end-of-life-upgrade-to-ubuntu-25-04
Ubuntu 25.10 will ship with a fully functional desktop session on RISC-V:
https://9to5linux.com/canonical-plans-for-a-fully-functional-desktop-session-on-risc-v-with-ubuntu-25-10
Ubuntu changes boot process on Raspberry Pi, to improve system recovery and reliability:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/ubuntu-raspberry-pi-boot-process-change
Fedora proposal raised to include Zstd-compressed Initrd by default for space savings and faster boot:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Initrd-Zstd-Compress
Parrot OS 6.4 released with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, new Goshs and ConvoC2 tools, updated hacking tools, Firefox 140 ESR, etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/ethical-hacking-distro-parrot-os-6-4-is-out-with-linux-kernel-6-12-lts-new-tools
Rhino Linux 2025.3 released with RPK2 package manager, new UBXI KDE Desktop package based on Plasma 6:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/rhino-linux-2025-3-debuts-rpk2-package-manager-and-kde-plasma-6-option/
Bottles project faces funding issues, asks for donations:
https://news.itsfoss.com/bottles-need-support/
Phosh 0.48.0 released with new lockscreen plugin to interact with all running media players that use the MPRIS protocol, Cell Broadcast dialogs enabled by default, bug fixes, GTK4 preps, etc.:
https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.48.0/
(more Linux and FOSS news in comments)
#Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) Promises Fully Functional Desktop Session on #RISCV, Improved #Wayland Experience on #NVIDIA GPUs, and More https://9to5linux.com/canonical-plans-for-a-fully-functional-desktop-session-on-risc-v-with-ubuntu-25-10