Isn't that par for the course for DSPs? Now-a-days I see a lot of hybrid DSPs with ARM cores that you can run whatever gcc you want on them but the main proces

Isn't that par for the course for DSPs? Now-a-days I see a lot of hybrid DSPs with ARM cores that you can run whatever gcc you want on them but the main processing cores that do all that DSP goodness usually require some proprietary software from the vendor to operate.