Introduction #

Here comes a interesting news that the Debian 13 Trixie¹ will officially support RISC-V architecture, which is a free and open ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) based on the RISC principles. This is a great news for the RISC-V community, as it will bring more software support and development opportunities to the RISC-V ecosystem.

The following is a guide to install and boot the official Debian 13 Trixie netinst CD image on qemu-system-riscv64, which can be used to evaluate the performance of RISC-V architecture on your local machine (I expected you are not using a real RISC-V hardware).