On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 09:33:56AM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Here’s a mini-ITX motherboard with most of the usual trimmings (no integrated graphics or audio, though), but with a RISC-V CPU. So you’ll be using that single PCIe-x16 slot for a graphics card. Known to run Ubuntu.
It’s available for pre-order <https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/milk-v-titan-mini-ix-board-with-ur-dp1000-processor-shows-risc-v-ecosystem-taking-shape-m-2-ddr4-and-pcie-card-support-form-a-kit-that-you-can-use-out-of-the-box>. At this stage, it seems more targeted towards developers and early adopters, not (yet) the mass market.
I see kernel support is "planned upstream Linux mainline (2026 Q4)" so you are likely going to be stuck with a vendor only kernel that will never be updated to a newer version. I don't know what milkV's reputation is, but if they are like many of the Arm SOC board manufacturers then having promised upstream and up-to-date kernel support, they will leave the developer community to do the actual work of debugging and upstreaming, so don't expect to be able to run the distribution of your choice anytime soon. Cheers, Michael.