How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 3 March 2025 at 01:18 PM EST. Page 2 of 6. 9 Comments.
The SiFive RISC-V performance on the HiFive Unmatched developer board has continued evolving with newer versions of Ubuntu Linux thanks to the updated kernel, GCC compiler, and other software featuring better RISC-V architecture support.
For some workloads the bulk of the software optimization uplift came from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with little gain in some areas on Ubuntu 24.04.
There have been a number of RISC-V Linux kernel optimizations to land over the past four years.