@piggo @kura Well I've yet to see NDAs and firmware blobs on the riscv side of things at least, while arm is full of that stuff.

That said for me the difference is more that StarFive actively mainlines to OpenSBI, u-boot, and linux (and is like 90% done): https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan

Meanwhile Pine64… lol, and it's so typical of ARM devices to just ship with vendor software and not care about mainlining any of their stuff.