riscv-software-src/riscv-tools

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A meta-repository of RISC-V development tools that bundles the Spike ISA simulator, riscv-tests, riscv-opcodes, and the riscv-pk proxy kernel/boot loader, with a build script that assembles a riscv64 toolchain via crosstool-ng. It serves as a one-stop quickstart for building and testing software against the RISC-V instruction set.

Use cases

• simulate RISC-V binaries on x86 hardware
• run RISC-V ISA compliance tests
• build a riscv64-unknown-elf cross-compiler toolchain
• boot a Linux kernel on a RISC-V simulator
• look up RISC-V opcode encodings
• set up a RISC-V development environment from scratch

When to choose

• you need an all-in-one quickstart for RISC-V simulation and testing
• you want Spike, riscv-tests, and pk built together with one script
• you are doing low-level RISC-V ISA or bare-metal development

When to avoid

• you only need a cross-compiler, which distro packages provide directly
• you want actively developed individual tools - use the upstream repos like riscv-isa-sim
• you need a production RISC-V toolchain rather than a reference build

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

simulation testing developer-tools build-tool developer-tools embedded-systems operating-systems hardware cli cpp risc-v isa-simulator cross-compilation toolchain proxy-kernel boot-loader linux macos

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