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Tangentially related to RISC-V current events: just a few weeks ago came some news[0], that the RISC-V community doesn't consider the support of Yocto project to be too important, and they don't want to support it anymore... (which was quite interesting, considering that RISC-V supposed to be big wannabe embedded competitor).

[0]: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/message/62906

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> We received some disappointing feedback from a key organization in the RISC-V ecosystem that the Yocto Project was not important and not worth funding. We will take this feedback into account.

That's a bummer. But the core Risc-V support should be contributed straight to the Linux kernel/u-boot/gcc/glibc anyway I guess. Then board makers, not chip makers, should contribute/provide yocto support, based on that foundational work.

Not sure which key organization they are referring too though.

Strong agree.

It would be bad for RISC-V to favor a Linux distribution of all things. The favoritism would look bad.

Distributions will properly support RISC-V even without RISC-V funding them directly, if they wish to remain relevant.

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