{"id":210366,"date":"2026-02-05T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/ubuntu-on-risc-v-might-actually-be-good-thanks-to-this-chip\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:30:11","slug":"ubuntu-on-risc-v-might-actually-be-good-thanks-to-this-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/ubuntu-on-risc-v-might-actually-be-good-thanks-to-this-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc\/\">Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-05 12:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Canonical announced today it&#8217;s collaborating with SpacemiT (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. in an effort to make Ubuntu run on SpacemiT&#8217;s RISC-V systems-on-chip (SoCs) that use the RVA23 profile. The SoCs include its upcoming K3 series, and support for its existing K1 SoC as well.<\/p>\n<p>This news follows Canonical&#8217;s release of Ubuntu 25.10 in October 2025 which moved the minimum supported RISC-V profile to RVA23. The newer profile, ratified in 2024, makes standard a bunch of features that had previously been optional and inconsistently available in the RISC-V ecosystem, making robust and reliable operating systems on RISC-V a real challenge to maintain. Those features include things like the extensions for running hypervisors and efficient vector operations.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the current Ubuntu 25.10 and future Ubuntu releases will only support the latest, most powerful RISC-V SoCs, and SpacemiT&#8217;s K1 and K3 will be the first. Interestingly, the K1 is based on the RVA22 profile, seemingly in conflict with RVA23 &#8220;baseline&#8221; established for Ubuntu 25.10. Nonetheless, Canonical seems to made sure the K1 got grandfathered in, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>SpacemiT, a China-based company, is evidently working closely with Canonical on Ubuntu&#8217;s RISC-V support. Canonical&#8217;s blog post reads:<\/p>\n<p>\u201dSpacemiT has significantly contributed to the fast-growing RISC-V ecosystem and leading adoption of RVA23 with Ubuntu 26.04,\u201d said Cindy Goldberg, VP of Cloud and Silicon Partnerships at Canonical. \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to work with SpacemiT to make the intelligent computing capabilities of the K3 and K1 series easily accessible to developers. Canonical is committed to amplifying the impact of open source software and making it available to users everywhere. The collaboration with SpacemiT aligns perfectly with our vision and our commitment to the RISC-Vecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see more RISC-V boards getting mainstream Linux support because RISC-V is an&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu on RISC-V might actually be good thanks to this chip https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/ubuntu-coming-to-spacemit-k3-rva23-risc-v-soc\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-05&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-ubuntu-linux-logo-on-a-purple-background-with-some-orange-coming-up-from-the-bottom-right.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-210366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210368,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210366\/revisions\/210368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}