Its absolutely a goal of RISC-V to make it friendly to good bootloaders and there are lots and lots of discussion going on how these interfaces should look. Th

Its absolutely a goal of RISC-V to make it friendly to good bootloaders and there are lots and lots of discussion going on how these interfaces should look. This stuff is still in flux but go into working groups for privilege architecture and security and you will see all these discussions. RISC-V was never and will never be designed with the goal of eliminating royalties.