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

Advrk Aplmrkt avkaplmkt at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 02:55:48 GMT 2016


I just got a reponse. They re-iterated that there are "no binary blobs
or proprietary microcode on the Open-V microcontroller". Interestingly
they also said "for RYF certification, we hadn't really considered it
because the FSF likely has no interest in
certifying microcontrollers. Of course, now we're curious, so we'll
get in touch with them and find out!"

I hope this is a good sign?

On 23/11/2016, Advrk Aplmrkt <avkaplmkt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/11/2016, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Just asked, hope to get a positive response!
>



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