DENVER – Open Source Summit North America – June 23, 2025 – The Yocto Project, an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of hardware architecture, recently announced that RISC-V International has partnered with RISE Project to upgrade to a Platinum Member, underscoring the growing momentum around open hardware and customizable embedded systems. This strategic alignment was detailed in a recent joint announcement with the RISE Project, a collaborative initiative driving RISC-V ecosystem enablement. While RISC-V has been unofficially supported by the community for several years, this new partnership offers formalized support for all RISC-V profiles. It also paves the way for an expanded set of offerings, tools and documentation to better serve developers building with RISC-V across a variety of domains.
“Having the RISC-V architecture as a primary testing target for the Yocto Project’s vast automated test matrix and infrastructure means we can meet a long term goal of our releases and development branches working on the architecture ‘out the box’ for users,” said Richard Purdie, Architect at the Yocto Project.