>to avoid doing work The problem with "doing work" is that work does take time. Being late means widespread non-standardized, bespoke vendor specific solution

>to avoid doing work The problem with "doing work" is that work does take time. Being late means widespread non-standardized, bespoke vendor specific solutions. Exactly the one thing RISC-V International strongly wants to avoid. Won't go into judging ACPI and UEFI, and how misunderstood or desirable they are. RISC-V chose to adopt these, and to standardize what the baseline platform is, and specify how ACPI and UEFI are implemented.