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Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

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126 points bundie | 1 comments | 01 Jul 25 08:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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shirro ◴[04 Jul 25 00:39 UTC] No.44460275[source]▶
Seems like a tough call for operating systems to do this when things are moving so fast. With risc-v its probably better to be future looking given current limitations but if a lower spec risc-v exploded in popularity you miss out.

Debian decided, probably very sensibly at the time, to set their minimum target for their 32 bit arm hardfloat distro to armv7. I guess hardly anyone used armv6 with hardware floating point apart from some obscure Broadcom chip. Then the original Raspberry Pi was released, moved an insane number of units, and Debian users would have been stuck with no hardware floating point. Fortunately Mike Thompson recompiled Debian for armv6 with hardfloat and that Debian fork (Raspbian) ended up becoming the basis for the official Raspberry Pi OS.

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1. lucideer ◴[04 Jul 25 12:24 UTC] No.44463914[source]▶
The Debian call seemed odd given the hardware on the market at the time - armv6 was on some very popular devices already.

In contrast, RISCV is still much more niche right now, & from the selection that is out there, DeepComputing FML13V01 & Pine64 both support Ubuntu 25 already, so they do seem to be banking on hardware that's already extant rather than pushing against the grain.