Debian 13 "Trixie" Linux distribution expected to bring RISC-V 64-bit support

According to news on June 12, Debian is one of the oldest GNU/Linux distributions. This operating system focuses on stability and does not pursue high-speed iteration. Therefore, a series of new features will be announced long before the new version is released. The Debian project currently announced that it will bring RISC-V 64-bit support in the future Debian 13 "Trixie".

In an update email shared by the Debian release team a few days ago, Debian developer Jonathan Wiltshire revealed the current situation of Debian under the RISC-V architecture: "Although the RISC-V 64-bit port has made good progress before, it has not been implemented in Debian in the end. 12. This feature is expected to be further improved in Debian 13, and official RISC-V support will be provided later.”

▲ Picture source Debian developer Jonathan Wiltshire 

Debian 12 currently released supports nine architectures: AMD64, AArch64, ARMEL, ARMHF, i386, MIPS, 64-bit MIPS, POWER and IBM System Z. There is no RISC-V 64-bit architecture as an official port.

The new architecture identification of Debian 13 "Trixie" needs to be carried out in the later stage of the Debian Trixie cycle. This work is expected to officially start with the Debian 13 Beta version one and a half to two years later, so the final RISC-V 64-bit architecture will be implemented. , it will take quite a while.

RISC-V is an emerging open source instruction set architecture. It has shipped more than 10 billion cores and is mainly active in low-power embedded devices with lower performance. The RISC-V instruction set is "free to use for any purpose" and anyone is free to design, manufacture and sell RISC-V chips and software.