[snvzz]

>Take one look at what is going on in the risc-v world with nearly every soc having its own fork of the linux kernel

There aren't that many RISC-V Linux-capable SoCs out there, and the ones I know all can boot a generic Linux (relying on SBI for e.g. timers or console i/o), and have ongoing efforts for upstreaming drivers.

It's a much more serious problem on ARM, which does not have anywhere as much platform nor boot standarization.

[moody__]

I was not aware of a risc-v board that could boot with nothing but mainline, could you link me to one that doesn't require any third party code to use?

[snvzz]

Anything based on JH7110, of which VisionFive 2 is most mature.

As well as anything else in opensbi upstream.

[moody__]

Thanks, I'll give that a look.