The RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project is a Linux Foundation Europe initiative where hardware, software and services companies collaborate to bridge the gap between architectural potential and commercial software readiness. While the RISC-V community is highly impactful, industrial-grade software often requires an extra push. RISE provides this through direct engineering, an RFP process that has already deployed over €1M in contracts, and individual support through the RISE Developer Appreciation Program.

This session highlights how RISE is accelerating RISC-V adoption within key upstream open-source projects. We will detail our strategic push to enable AI/ML workloads through targeted investments in PyTorch, Llama.cpp, IREE, oneDNN, and OpenBLAS. We’ll demonstrate how RISE is lowering the barrier to entry by providing free GitHub and GitLab runners for riscv64, alongside self-service remote hardware access via the RISE Board Farm. Finally, we will share our long-term roadmap for ecosystem performance and stability, focusing on LLVM auto-vectorization for RVV at scale and the RISE Build Farm’s role in proactive bug detection across kernel, toolchain and system libraries.