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This is a very dangerous precedent for RISC-V.

Allwinner is known as a champion in GPL violations, obfuscating technical details and keeping binary blobs. This defeats the entire purpose of RISC-V and creates an environment similar to what is now for ARM (everything locked down, everything opaque).

The advertisement is basically false advertisement, this is no computer for "free hackers" but another locked down SCB with a non free core.




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