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.

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).

Hardware

Freedom U540 and HiFive Unleashed by SiFive.

ESP32 by Espressif Systems.

SpacemiT K3 by SpacemiT.

Assemblers

• GNU Assembler
• TCCASM

Bootloaders

• Barebox
• Das U-Boot
• GNU GRUB
• Limine

Compilers

• GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
• LLVM / Clang
• Tiny C Compiler (TCC)

Debuggers

• GNU Debugger (gdb)
• LLDB

Decompilers

• JEB decompiler

Disassemblers

• Binary Ninja
• Ghidra
• Interactive Disassembler (IDA Pro)
• Radare2

Emulators

• felix86 – x86-64 userspace emulator
• QEMU

Hypervisors

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

Simulators

• gem5
• Spike

Operating systems

• Android (unofficial experimental support)
• Linux
• FreeBSD (tier 2), NetBSD, OpenBSD
• Haiku
• Tizen
• OpenHarmony

Embedded/real-time

• Apache Mynewt
• eCos
• FreeRTOS
• Nucleus RTOS
• NuttX
• PX5 RTOS
• RIOT
• RTEMS
• RT-Thread
• ThreadX
• Tock
• VxWorks
• Zephyr

Linux distributions

• Alpine Linux
• Chimera Linux
• Debian (official)
• Fedora Linux (as a secondary architecture)
• Gentoo Linux
• NixOS (experimental)
• openSUSE
• Rocky Linux
• Ubuntu

Misc

• ACPI since version 6.6 (released in May 2025)
• UEFI
• using GNAT
• using GCC
• using GNU Fortran
• Snek
• (tier 3)
• Java (HotSpot)
• (tier 2)

References