From the main qemu repo, we are to build the riscv64-softmmu target and run the 64-bit Buildroot Image, as described here:

A "Hello World" program compiled with riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc does work.

But we aren't seeing expected behavior when running the simple rvv_vadd.c program described here:

For example: vl = vsetvl_e32m2 (n) seems to return 0.

This is the qemu run command we're using for buildroot:
qemu-system-riscv64 -cpu rv64,x-v=true,vlen=256,elen=64,vext_spec=v0.7.1    -M virt -nographic    -bios output/images/fw_jump.elf    -kernel output/images/Image    -append "root=/dev/vda ro"    -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,format=raw,id=hd0    -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0    -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0

Assistance would much appreciated!

Sincerely,

Mick