> Qualcomm's proposal smells strongly like they're doing the minimum to strap a RISC-V decoder to the front of these cores. Hmm.. At about the same time as the

> Qualcomm's proposal smells strongly like they're doing the minimum to strap a RISC-V decoder to the front of these cores. Hmm.. At about the same time as the proposal to drop C from RVA, Qualcomm also proposed an instruction-set extension [1] that smells very much of ARM's ISA (at least to my nose). It also has several issues to criticise, IMHO. [1] https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/332/0/code_size_extension_rvi_20231006.pdf https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-profiles/attachment/332/0/cod...