This document captures the status of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem. Please add to the list and fix inaccuracies.
- Simulators
- Object toolchain
- Debugging
- C compilers and libraries
- Boot loaders and monitors
- OS and OS kernels
- Compilers and runtimes for other languages
- IDEs
- Security
We would like to enlist community help for the software ports in the Help Wanted section.
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
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DBT-RISE-RISCV | github | BSD-3-Clause | MINRES Technologies |
FireSim | website, mailing list, github, ISCA 2018 Paper | BSD | Sagar Karandikar, Howard Mao, Donggyu Kim, David Biancolin, Alon Amid, Berkeley Architecture Research |
gem5 | SW-dev thread, repository | BSD-style | Alec Roelke (University of Virginia) |
Imperas | website | Proprietary, models available under Apache 2.0 | Imperas |
riscvOVPsim | github | license | Imperas |
OVPsim | website | Free for non commercial use, models available under Apache 2.0 | Imperas |
jor1k | website, github | BSD 2-Clause | Sebastian Macke |
Jupiter | github | GPL-3.0 | Andrés Castellanos |
QEMU | upstream | GPL | Sagar Karandikar (University of California, Berkeley), Bastian Koppelmann (University of Paderborn), Alex Suykov, Stefan O'Rear and Michael Clark (SiFive) |
RARS | github | MIT | Benjamin Landers |
Renode | website, github | MIT | Antmicro |
Ripes | github | MIT | Morten Borup Petersen |
RISC-V Virtual Prototype | website, github | MIT | Vladimir Herdt (University of Bremen, AGRA) |
TinyEMU | website | MIT | Fabrice Bellard |
Spike | github | BSD 3-clause | Andrew Waterman & Yunsup Lee (SiFive) |
Swerv-ISS | github | GPL - 3 | Joseph Rahmeh (Western Digital) |
MARSS-RISCV | github | MIT | Gaurav N Kothari, Parikshit P Sarnaik, Gokturk Yuksek (State University of New York at Binghamton) |
- Maintainer(s): Andrew Waterman (SiFive), Palmer Dabbelt (SiFive), Jim Wilson (SiFive)
- Version: 2.28
- Upstreaming status: Upstream, RISC-V support available starting in 2.28
- Future work:
- RISC-V repository: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-binutils-gdb
- Upstream repository: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git
- Privileged Spec: 1.9.1
- User Spec: 2.0
- ABI:
- Links: https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/forum/#!searchin/sw-dev/binutils/sw-dev/RS_wN0-wpCI/X923RdnDBQAJ
- Maintainer(s): Alex Bradbury (lowRISC)
- Version: HEAD
- Upstreaming status: Upstream, RISC-V officially supported starting in 9.0.0
- Future work:
- Resolve remaining issues with GCC torture suite test cases (mostly calling convention related)
- Expand support for different ISA variants, PIC/PIE code models etc
- Scheduling model, peephole optimisations, and performance comparison vs GCC-generated code
- Upstream repository:
- https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm (Git mirror)
- Privileged Spec:
- User Spec: 2.0
- ABI:
- Links: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/tree/master/lib/Target/RISCV
- Version: HEAD
- Repository: https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift
- Maintainer(s): Andrew Burgess (Embecosm), Palmer Dabbelt (SiFive)
- Version: HEAD
- Upstreaming status: Bare metal support committed upstream 6 March 2018, was in 8.2 release. XML target description support, non DWARF stack unwinding, basic Linux application support, and basic BSD application support will be in the next (8.3) release.
- Future work: Linux GDBServer support.
- RISC-V repository: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-binutils-gdb
- Upstream repository: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git
- Privileged Spec: 1.9.1
- User Spec: 2.0
- ABI:
- Links:
- Maintainer(s): Tim Newsome, Megan Wachs, Palmer Dabbelt (SiFive)
- Version: 0.10.0-dev
- Upstreaming status: Not started
- Future work:
- Implementing System Bus Access
- Implementing semihosting and/or proxied syscalls
- RISC-V repository: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-openocd
- Upstream repository: https://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/code/ci/master/tree/
- Debug Spec Working Directory: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-debug-spec
- Debug Spec: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-debug-spec/blob/0.13/riscv-debug-spec.pdf
- Supported Debug Spec version(s): 0.11, 0.13
A binary distribution of OpenOCD with support for RISC-V.
- Maintainer(s): Liviu Ionescu
- Web: https://gnu-mcu-eclipse.github.io/openocd/
- Repository: https://github.com/gnu-mcu-eclipse/openocd
- Build: https://github.com/gnu-mcu-eclipse/openocd-build
- Binary package installer: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gnu-mcu-eclipse/openocd
- Status: commercially supported solution
- Website: http://www.imperas.com/riscv#debug
- Single core: simulator provides gdbServer for single core debug with GDB/Eclipse
- Multi-Core debug available in Eclipse to debug SMP and AMP heterogeneous multi-core systems including all processor instances and peripheral behavioral components
- Links: http://www.imperas.com/msdk-advanced-multicore-software-development-kit#Debug
- Maintainer(s): Sanimir Agovic
- Website: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/tools.cdt.tcf
- Version: HEAD
- Upstreaming status: Linux native debugging support commit
- Future work:
- Bare metal debugging based on RISC-V External Debug Support
- FPU support for native Linux debugging
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/eclipse/tcf.agent
- User Spec: 2.2
- Links:
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
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GCC | Upstream, RISC-V repository | GPLv3 | Andrew Waterman (SiFive), Palmer Dabbelt (SiFive), Jim Wilson (SiFive), Kito Cheng (Andes) |
GNU MCU Eclipse RISC-V Embedded GCC (riscv-non-embed-gcc) | Web, Repository, Build, Binary package installer | Eclipse Public License | Liviu lonescu |
Clang/LLVM | Upstream | Apache 2.0 | Alex Bradbury (lowRISC) |
CompCert | Upstream | INRIA Non-Commercial License Agreement | Xavier Leroy |
Glibc | Upstream, RISC-V repository | GPLv2 | Palmer Dabbelt (SiFive), Andrew Waterman (SiFive), DJ Delorie (Red Hat), Darius Rad(Bluespec) |
Newlib | Upstream, RISC-V repository | GPLv2 | Kito Cheng (Andes) |
Musl | - | - | - |
- Maintainer(s): Ron Minnich (Google), Jonathan Neuschäfer
- Version: master
- Status: runs on spike, lowRISC/Nexys4DDR. Linux doesn't quite work yet.
- Upstreaming status: upstream
- Future work:
- RISC-V repository:
- Upstream repository: https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/
- Privileged Spec: 1.9
- User Spec: 2.0
- ABI:
More information:
- https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Tues1345-riscvcoreboot.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KnwZzbvp1c (coreboot on RISC-V, Ron Minnich, RISC-V workshop)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDNIWuf1jAk (coreboot on RISC-V, Ron Minnich, coreboot conference 2016)
- Maintainer(s): Abner Chang, Dong Wei (HP Enterprise)
- Version:
- Status:
- Upstreaming status:
- Future work:
- RISC-V repository:
- Upstream repository:
- Privileged Spec:
- User Spec: 2.0
- ABI:
https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Tues1415-RISC-V-and-UEFI.pdf
- Maintainer(s):
- Version:
- Status:
- Upstreaming status:
- Future work:
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-pk
- Privileged Spec: 1.9.1
- User Spec: 2.0
- ABI:
- Maintainer(s): Anup Patel
- Version: 0.3
- Status:
- Upstreaming status:
- Future work:
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/riscv/opensbi
- Privileged Spec: 1.9.1
- User Spec:
- ABI:
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
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Linux Kernel | github, kernel.org | GPLv2 | Andrew Waterman (SiFive), Albert Ou (SiFive), Palmer Dabbelt (SiFive) |
Yocto Project/OpenEmbedded | github | Khem Raj | |
Poky | github | Martin Maas (University of California, Berkeley) | |
Buildroot | busybox.net | Mark Corbin (Embecosm) |
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
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Fedora | fedoraproject.org | Richard WM Jones, Stefan O’Rear, David Abdurachmanov | |
Debian | debian wiki, mit.edu, riscv.org, Annc | Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo | |
OpenMandriva | openmandriva.org, openmandriva.org | Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkränzer | |
openSUSE | opensuse.org | Andreas Schwab (SUSE) | |
Gentoo | github | Palmer Dabbelt (University of California, Berkeley) | |
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre | github, parabola.nu | Andreas Grapentin (University of Potsdam, HPI) | |
januslinux | github | nee-san |
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
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RTEMS | rtems.org, docs.rtems.org | Hesham Almatary | |
FreeRTOS | sourceforge freertos.org | AWS | |
Zephyr | github, docs | Karol Gugala (Antmicro), Peter Gielda (Antmicro), Nathaniel Graff (SiFive) | |
NuttX | bitbucket.org, nuttx.org | ||
Apache Mynewt | riscv.org | James Pace, Runtime | |
OpenWrt | github, binary repo | Zoltan Herpai | |
seL4 | github, announcement | Hesham Almatary and Data61/CSIRO |
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
---|---|---|---|
FreeBSD | github, wiki.freebsd.org, presentation | Ruslan Bukin (FreeBSD) | |
NetBSD | netbsd.org, github | Matt Thomas (NetBSD), Reinoud Zandijk (NetBSD) |
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
---|---|---|---|
Go | Upstream, RISC-V repository, Stef's fork | BSD 3-clause | Benjamin Barenblat (Google), Michael Pratt (Google), Stef O'Rear |
Ocaml | Upstream, RISC-V repository | LGPL | Nicolás Ojeda Bär |
Maxine VM (Java Virtual Machine) | Upstream | GPLv2 | Maxine team |
Jikes RVM (Java Virtual Machine) | Upstream | Eclipse Public License (EPL) | Martin Maas (University of California, Berkeley) |
OpenJDK/HotSpot (Java Virtual Machine) | ? | ? | Alexey Baturo, Michael Knysnek, Martin Maas |
Free Pascal | Upstream | ? | Jeppe Johansen and others |
Nim | Upstream | MIT | Andreas Rumpf and others |
Ada (GNAT) | Upstream | Proprietary | AdaCore |
Rust | Upstream | Apache and MIT | Rust Project |
muForth | Upstream | ? | David Frech |
ibForth | Upstream | GPLv3 | Lars Brinkhoff |
Mecrisp-Quintis Forth kernel | Upstream | ? | Matthias Koch |
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
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GNU MCU Eclipse | Website, Repositories, Binary distribution | EPL-1.0 / various | Liviu Ionescu |
Name | Links | License | Maintainers |
---|---|---|---|
Hex Five Security | SDK | Proprietary | Hex Five Security Inc. |
Keystone Enclave | Website, Repositories | BSD 3-clause | Keystone Team |
- V8
- Node.js
- Dart