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@@ -69,9 +69,11 @@ Fedora
 Demo
 
 Aims
-  Explain why: current software is crap
-  Busybox
-  Almost like an embedded system
+  Explain why:
+    Current software is crap
+    Busybox
+    Cross-compilers
+    Basically an embedded system
 
 Scope
 
@@ -82,10 +84,32 @@ Four stage bootstrap process
   Stage 4 is the clean image built entirely from RPMs, with all
   dependencies satisfied and all files controlled by RPM.
 
+  The bootstrap process has generally speaking been quite easy (just
+  tedious and slow because it all happens under emulation).
+
+  All the complicated bits (ie. kernel, toolchain) were done already
+  upstream and there haven't been any packages that were difficult to
+  get working.
+
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-Software development and the community
+RISC-V software development and the community
+
+  Friendly and helpful upstream community.
+
+  Far too many of non-upstream forks around.
+
+  Some concerns about changes/instability in the architecture, but
+  at least for userspace things seem pretty solid.
+
+  Really needs virtio support.  Someone from the Fedora community
+  is looking into this.
+
+  Fedora community have been very active with packaging.
 
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-Red Hat
+What does this mean for Red Hat?
+
+
+Summary and questions