Built for Rapid Upstream Delivery
Rolling releases with upstream tracking bring new RISC-V features and fixes to you sooner—less waiting, less rework.
Built for RISC-V Developers
Stay close to upstream to reduce backports and forks. Easier reproduction, faster debugging, smoother upstream contributions.
Built for Early Validation
Surfaces firmware, platform semantics, and Linux interoperability issues early—so vendors fix faster, reduce divergence, and reach mainstream OS compatibility sooner.
I largely agree, but I could see having a prebuild iso/img including uboot for most common boards being a lot more user friendly than doing it by hand.
That and a binary cache could make things take a couple mins for a download vs a couple days to compile the kernel + all packages for any user with lower end hardware.
Kinda like what armbian provides for the arm space, but with a lot harder initial curve by hand rolling their own distro.