yeah, it usually is, that's how those device trees work. it's generally bundled with the "bootloader" (chain loader component of the firmware). you can even ba

yeah, it usually is, that's how those device trees work. it's generally bundled with the "bootloader" (chain loader component of the firmware). you can even bake them into your kernel if you want, i believe. RISC-V is a processor ISA, not a platform spec. you may be interested in the SBI: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/v0.2.0/riscv-sbi.adoc https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/v0.2.0/riscv-sbi... the details of how all this stuff works at a human-collaboration level has changed a bit since 1993. there's a higher level of collaboration expected. vs intel and ms bossing people around. edit: you may also be interested in https://doc.coreboot.org/arch/riscv/index.html https://doc.coreboot.org/arch/riscv/index.html and https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/25/1209 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/25/1209 and https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-02/msg00021.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2019-02/msg000... not exactly "desktop" yet, but hopefully you can see how that might look, given the existing linux infrastructure :)