Ubuntu 26.04 Development on RISC-V: Installation, System Administration, Hardware Bring-Up, Performance, and Native Application Development (Practical RISC-V Linux Development Series)

Build a practical foundation for working with Ubuntu 26.04 on the RISC-V architecture.
The RISC-V ecosystem is creating new opportunities for developers, systems engineers, embedded developers, researchers, and hardware enthusiasts who want to understand an open instruction-set architecture from the operating system upward. But getting from an architectural concept to a working Linux development environment requires more than understanding the instruction set. It requires knowing how the operating system, boot process, packages, hardware, networking, storage, services, and development tools fit together.
Ubuntu 26.04 Development on RISC-V provides a practical path through that environment.
Beginning with the fundamentals, this book walks through the process of preparing a RISC-V environment, installing and configuring Ubuntu 26.04, establishing a reliable development workstation, and working with the system from both an administrative and developer perspective.
You will explore package management, storage configuration, networking, system services, users and permissions, process management, system diagnostics, logging, performance considerations, and development workflows. The book also introduces hardware bring-up concepts and explains how the software stack interacts with RISC-V hardware.
Rather than treating Ubuntu and RISC-V as isolated subjects, the book connects them into a working systems-development environment.
Inside, you will learn how to:
• Prepare a practical Ubuntu 26.04 RISC-V environment
• Understand the relationship between the RISC-V architecture and Linux
• Install, configure, and maintain essential system components
• Work with packages, repositories, services, users, permissions, and processes
• Configure storage and networking for development workloads
• Diagnose system problems using logs and command-line tools
• Establish a productive native development environment
• Build and run applications directly on RISC-V
• Understand important hardware bring-up concepts
• Analyze system behavior and identify performance bottlenecks
• Develop practical administration and troubleshooting skills
Whether you are approaching RISC-V from Linux development, systems programming, embedded computing, or hardware experimentation, this book is designed to turn the platform into something you can actually work with.
Build the environment. Understand the system. Develop on RISC-V.