[Arm-netbook] Have you checked out this Open Source RISC-V-based 32-bit μC?

[Paul Boddie]

On Wednesday 23. November 2016 01.52.53 Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
> On 22/11/2016, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22. November 2016 11.33.27 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > Well, it wasn't that! The Crowd Supply campaign for the microcontroller
> > in question (not a system-on-a-chip) has just launched:
> > 
> > https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v
> 
> Does anyone know if this new project is 100% free as in freedom? I
> know RISC-V is supposed to be free as in freedom, but what about the
> whole thing that they are crowdsourcing?

The first words of the campaign mail were "Libre silicon anyone?", and the 
campaign material suggests that they know the difference between "open" and 
what people have been calling "libre", but you should just ask them anyway.

Paul