I’ve seen these cool news for the buyers of the SiFive Unmatched board.
It seems everything is on track. Keep 
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Latest news from Linus Torvalds himself on this specific kernel release 5.12 rc1:
https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHk-=wjnzdLSP3oDxhf9eMTYo7GF-QjaNLBUH1Zk3c4A7X75YA@mail.gmail.com/
Don’t use a partition file with this Linux Kernel 5.12 rc1.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
I want everybody to be aware of because if it bites you, it
bites you hard, and you can end up with a filesystem that is
essentially overwritten by random swap data. This is what we in the
industry call “double ungood”.
Using a swap partition or no swap at all is ok.
Original news source: Torvalds warns the world: Don’t use the Linux 5.12-rc1 kernel | Ars Technica
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He has now tagged v5.12-rc2, which should be “safe”. Thanks!