>>      In any case there is pretty slick support for the SiFive RISC-V
>> hardware in the baseline Linux kernel as well as a whole slew of
>> packages that should "just work". At least in theory.

>>      The trick then, as they say, is the boot loader ( GRUB2 ) and then
>> the initramfs and goodies for the minimal installer. So I am thinking
>> that I can certainly do some work on this.

>>      Also, the same idea goes for IBM POWER9 architecture.