\chapter{``P'' Standard Extension for Packed-SIMD Instructions,
  Version 0.2}
\label{sec:packedsimd}

\begin{commentary}
  Discussions at the 5th RISC-V workshop indicated a desire to drop
  this packed-SIMD proposal for floating-point registers in favor of
  standardizing on the V extension for large floating-point SIMD
  operations.  However, there was interest in packed-SIMD fixed-point
  operations for use in the integer registers of small RISC-V
  implementations. A task group is working to define the new P
  extension.
\end{commentary}