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The RISC-V Server Platform specification defines a standardized set of hardware and sofware capabilities, that portable system software, such as operating systems and hypervisors, can rely on being present in a RISC-V server platform.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2024-07-15 · latest 2026-06-12

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  1. …Server Platform Specification was recently standardized with mandatory UEFI and ACPI support: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-server-platform/relea... I'd rather have OpenFirmware like enterprise POWER, but anything is better than…
    comment by lispwitch · 2026-06-12 · in macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux
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    RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified
    story by fork-bomber · 2026-05-08 · 9 comments
  3. …server chips, and it is expected to be ratified next month. (I have not read it myself yet) [0]: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-server-platform
    comment by Findecanor · 2026-04-10 · in What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical
  4. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-server-platform/blob/...
    comment by camel-cdr · 2025-09-09 · in AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86
  5. …requires UEFI always. There is also a specification[2] on how UEFI is to be implemented. 0. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-server-platform/relea... 1. https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-uefi/releases
    comment by snvzz · 2025-09-01 · in Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs
  6. Unfortunately this is true in general, but for servers there is some hope: https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-server-platform
    comment by rwmj · 2024-07-15 · in Writing a BIOS bootloader for 64-bit mode from scratch