Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements

It's worse than that -- there is not a single piece of hardware that implements RVA23 available to be bought on the market today.

There are SoCs on the market that implement RVV (Vector extensions), and SoCs on the market that implement H (Hypervisor extensions).

There are no SoCs on the market that implement both at the same time. And both are mandatory for RVA23.

I'd love to be proven wrong on the hardware availability. If there's hardware to be bought in western countries that implements both RVV and H, please let me know.

> It's worse than that -- there is not a single piece of hardware that implements RVA23 available to be bought on the market today.

I think that's fine, as an outsider without any RISC-V board around, alignment in the future seems better than a board out today given performance is AFAIK still awfully subpar.

As a potential consumer all I want is that by the time RISC-V really hits the market people don't start hitting edge cases like toes on furniture with missing extensions that ended up being critical to properly run the software they need. I don't want another shitshow like USB-C fast-charging where consumers can't easily tell if a cable will work fine or end up in a slow charge fallback.

I'd rather see RISC-V for the more general public coming out later than starting with the wrong foot.