[unlord]

> 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.