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by photonbeam 1068 days ago
Presumably Android will also chose a base minimum ISA spec for riscv software at some point. It would be tidy if they match the regular linux ecosystem
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Android (and most Linux distributions) is likely to settle for RVA22+V or RVA23 as minimum requirement.

There's a lot in there which RV64GC (ratified in 2019, I understand unchanged since 2017) lacks.

Some of the new extensions e.g. vector and bit manipulation do have a significant effect in performance.

It has not been decided. There was a talk about the details just 2 weeks ago on the RISC-V International Youtube channel. Very interesting and recommended.