Banana Pi BPI-RV2 RISC-V gateway board

The specs look like my multimedia Athlon XP PC from 2002, talk about embedded not being powerful enough.

There's not a lot of powerful RISC-V hardware out there but that's a bit beside the point.RISC-V is exciting because it's fully opensource.

The raw specs doesn't look impressive, but network offloading and forwarding capabilities means that the cores will sit mostly idle, even under some load.

If you want to put it to the demarcation line of your network and forget it, it's a fine device. If you want to run containers and services on it, this is not it.

Horses for courses, YMMV, as always.

From the high level, yes RISC-V is open, but as far as I can tell, When a chip is designed, nothing is preventing it from being closed like this SF21H8898

RISC-V is partially open source, vendors can do whatever they feel like with extensions.