Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V
Hardware Support
Written by Michael Larabel in Fedora on 8 June 2026 at 08:25 PM EDT. 5 Comments FEDORAFollowing the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44
RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux
on RISC-V hardware.

RISC-V images of Fedora 44 are now available for container, server, and cloud variants.
The Fedora 44 RISC-V material is considered non-official and community-contributed
alternate images currently with Fedora Linux.

The Fedora 44 Server images for RISC-V use a Linux 6.19 based kernel close to upstream and have been tested on the Vision Five 2, Orange Pi RV, and Milk-V Mars.

New to Fedora 44 is having an "Omni" kernel build with the Fedora-Server-Host-Omni
images rather than the Fedora-Server-Host-Generic. The "Omni" kernel in Fedora RISC-V
land aims to support a broader set of RISC-V boards, including in cases of not yet having
all the necessary patches in the upstream Linux kernel.
Orange Pi RV2


The Omni kernel with Fedora 44 is able to boot on the following RISC-V boards: Banana
Pi BPI-F3, Bit-Brick K1, DeepComputing fml13v01, Lichee Pi 4A, Milk-V Jupiter, Milk-V
Mars, Milk-V Megrez, Milk-V Titan, OrangePi R2S, OrangePi RV, OrangePi RV2, Pine64
STARPro64, SiFive HiFive P550, SiFive HiFive Unmatched, SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX, StarFive VisionFive 2, StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite.
SiFive HiFive boards


With the Omni kernel it's quite a nice list with the SpacemiT K3, SiFive HiFive Premier
P550, Orange Pi RV2, and others. Meanwhile with the latest Ubuntu Linux RISC-V builds
limited to the RVA23 profile, their current range of hardware support is very limited.

More details on today's Fedora 44 RISC-V images released via Fedora Discourse. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v10.0b40
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