The Yocto Project is an open-source collaboration providing the tools which developers and organizations need to create custom embedded systems for a variety of architectures. This nominally includes both 32- and 64-bit RISC-V platforms, but until recently, official support and testing has been limited to emulated systems and a community-managed board-support layer (targeting hardware compliant with RVA22 and earlier) called meta-riscv. With the impending mass-availability of RVA23-compliant development boards and growing community interest, the RISE Project aims to ensure that Yocto is ready, by providing developer support for triaging RISC-V specific issues, while simultaneously improving test coverage and board support in the meta-riscv layer. To this end, a set of RVA22-based development boards have been deployed alongside some periodic build and test pipelines implemented with Forgejo and Labgrid, allowing early prototyping of longer-term validation workflows that Yocto and the community can build upon in the future. The foundation that this provides will ensure that as more organizations investigate RISC-V platforms for inclusion in their projects, a proven and reliable level of support will be waiting for them.