> ... promote RISC-V in a way that increases the likelihood of viable open firmware and hardware emerging in the ecology, that's great. Guess the most easy/eff

> ... promote RISC-V in a way that increases the likelihood of viable open firmware and hardware emerging in the ecology, that's great. Guess the most easy/effective way to support this direction is: buy open devices (such as the HiFive Unmatched). The bigger the community around them grows, the more power their creators will have to make manufacturers produce open hardware devices. As it looks to me, you can run the Unmatched entirely without closed firmware blobs, right? [1] [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/SiFive/HiFiveUnmatched https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/SiFive/HiFiveUnma...