Remove ACK's [Android Common Kernel] support for riscv64. Support for risc64 GKI kernels is discontinued, the patch note briefly says. The deletion was submitted by a Google engineer, and naturally passed the review process.
The practical effect of this is that Android operating system implementations using the next release of GKI won't work on RISC-V chips out of the box. Support for RISC-V will have to be added back in by other developers.
It's unclear what kind of effect this will have on RISC-V's integration into the Android ecosystem. Although no RISC-V smartphones exist yet, the discontinuation of GKI support may impact adoption.
Google assures that the end of RISC-V's GKI support isn't a death sentence for RISC-V on Android. Android will continue to support RISC-V due to the rapid rate of iteration.
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