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No kidding; and while RISC-V is a massive improvement, I hate to be the wet blanket, but RISC-V will not change signed boot, bootloader restrictions, messy or closed source drivers, carrier requirements, DRM implementation, or other painful day to day paper cuts. Open source architecture != Open source software and certainly != Open source hardware; no matter what the YouTubers think.



Until arm or risc-v fix standardize the bootloader, it’s always going to be a big deal for each arm/risc device added anywhere…


Relevant RISC-V specs were released years ago and implementations follow them.

I know of no boards that have application processors and yet not implement SBI. Furthermore, everybody seems to be using the opensbi implementation.

ARM and RISC-V are not the same.




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