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The article says:

> Android will continue to support RISC-V. Due to the rapid rate of iteration, we are not ready to provide a single supported image for all vendors. This particular series of patches removes RISC-V support from the Android Generic Kernel Image (GKI).

There is some more context in the android SIG: https://lists.riscv.org/g/sig-android/topic/105816077#msg389

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that link makes it much more clear

  > they are removing older code for Qualcomm specific use case that is no longer supported (Wear OS IIRC was discontinued). That pre-dates all the current work, so I expect this was removed because the platform was deprecated

and

  > since maintenance of an officially _labelled_ GKI kernel is more expensive, we're removing the sticker for now.

so... basically a nothingburger?

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