[MisterTea]

> unless you count a pile of Linux and bootloader patches, which I don't

This is what drives me crazy. Vendor claims "open source" which means an outdated linux image and the source code is wrapped up inside of a megalith build monstrosity like penguintronix or yocto. Utter junk these things are.

[snvzz]

OpenSBI patches are already upstream, and u-boot being reviewed for merging.

It is not anywhere as bad as you're picturing it.

[MisterTea]

> It is not anywhere as bad as you're picturing it.

It is If I want to bootstrap a kernel that isn't Linux.