> I gather that VMX/VSX will not be implemented (too much work?)
> for the time being?

Yes, correct. Their long-term plan is however to not implement VMX/VSX ever but instead somehow convince IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation to abandon VSX in favour of Libre-SOC's non-SIMD SimpleV (or Simple-V, seems they can't decide on one spelling variant) vector augmentation.