--- title: Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V | daily.dev description: A hands-on account of porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V architecture on the HiFive Unleashed board. Covers the two-phase process: bootstrapping (cross-compiler... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/porting-alpine-linux-to-risc-v-bh1hve863 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on account of porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V architecture on the HiFive Unleashed board. Covers the two-phase process: bootstrapping (cross-compiler... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/porting-alpine-linux-to-risc-v-bh1hve863 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Bh1HVE863.png og:image:alt: Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V **[Drew DeVault](https://daily.dev/sources/drewdevault)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on account of porting Alpine Linux to RISC-V architecture on the HiFive Unleashed board. Covers the two-phase process: bootstrapping (cross-compiler setup, musl libc patching for RISC-V, building essential packages) and the broader porting effort. The author encountered and fixed several bugs in the RISC-V musl libc patch, integrated Alpine's bootstrap script, and discusses the tradeoff between cross-compilation and native builds. Plans include making RISC-V build cycles publicly available via builds.sr.ht, and a preliminary Alpine RISC-V repository is shared for early adopters. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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