[wren6991]

> I was under the impression from "I'm of the opinion that the lack of arm-like -mcpu=<core>+<optional stuff>+no<disabled stuff> equivalent for RISC-V is a good thing" in the linked discussion that a new processor type was necessary to enable even basic extensions

I think lenary's complaint there is more about the defaults being poor for the Arm -mcpu stuff (everything is on and you have to disable everything explicitly and individually) and the way it conflates CPU vs arch variant. They used to be an Arm compiler engineer so there is a lot of past trauma there.