Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

Holy cow! Ubuntu really takes their hardware gatekeeping seriously.

Of course we'll hear from the apologists about how much extra work supporting "low end" systems is - think of the developers! think of Ubuntu's bottom line!

> Admittedly there is one big rub: the range of RISC-V devices with RVA23 support is, at the time or writing this, near non-existent.

They couldn't even wait for hardware to be available before doing this? So basically Ubuntu 25.10 only runs on hardware that doesn't yet exist. Nice.

> Focusing future Ubuntu support to devices that have more capable RISC-V profile sets will further position the distro as the de-facto OS on the platform.

...or everyone will move to something else - ANYTHING else - because we don't want to replace our brand new devices just to run Ubuntu.

>...or everyone will move to something else - ANYTHING else - because we don't want to replace our brand new devices just to run Ubuntu.

Everyone now is nobody tomorrow.

Right now, the few RISC-V boards are in the hands of developers and enthusiasts.

In the future, RISC-V will continue to grow, into mass-market.

Ubuntu recognizes the importance of being able to fully take advantage of RVA23, a fully capable ISA comparable to x86-64v4 and ARMv9.