>But then none of them do the hard work to make an entire platform/ecosystem that would be required to make a compelling product RISC-V has. Boot and platform

>But then none of them do the hard work to make an entire platform/ecosystem that would be required to make a compelling product RISC-V has. Boot and platform efforts have been very active since even before the base unprivileged spec was ratified. Besides SBI (which is very successful and in widespread use), the specs for UEFI and ACPI are done, and we've seen implementations as well. And all of this done before widespread deployment of application processors, which is imminent now.