> If you avoid it then you won't be using RISC-V at all, right now.
I'm sorry this just isn't true. The K230 has RVV 1.0 hardware and has been available for 5 months.
> Which matters much less than it used to, as gcc 14 can compile C code with RVV intrinsics to either.
This is still a huge problem for fragmentation. Multimedia libraries in FFmpeg and VideoLAN use hand written assembly and only support standards compliant RVV 1.0.
There is no reason to ever produce a binary for RVV 0.7.1, it will simply fail if run on standards compliant hardware.
I'm sorry this just isn't true. The K230 has RVV 1.0 hardware and has been available for 5 months.
> Which matters much less than it used to, as gcc 14 can compile C code with RVV intrinsics to either.
This is still a huge problem for fragmentation. Multimedia libraries in FFmpeg and VideoLAN use hand written assembly and only support standards compliant RVV 1.0.
There is no reason to ever produce a binary for RVV 0.7.1, it will simply fail if run on standards compliant hardware.