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Signed-off-by: Trevor Gamblin <tgamblin@baylibre.com>

Author: threexc

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+# RISE Python Wheels
+
+RISE Python Wheels is a public project enabling the RISC-V support for the
+Python ecosystem. It makes use of the RISE [RISC-V
+Runners](https://riscv-runners.riseproject.dev/) project to build wheels on
+native riscv64 hardware, with the goal of maintaining a riscv64-specific package
+repository for projects where upstream are not yet ready or able to perform
+builds themselves.
+
+This work is a continuation of the earlier
+[wheel_builder](https://gitlab.com/riseproject/python/wheel_builder) project,
+which hosts binary wheels for a variety of Python modules.
+
+For more informatiion about RISE, visit the [project
+website](https://riseproject.dev/).