[PATCH 3/3] arm64: Sort registers in cpu-feature-registers.rst
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Jul 2 08:22:14 PDT 2026
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 06:58:39PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> - ID_AA64PFR0_EL1 - Processor Feature Register 0
> + ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1 - Instruction set attribute register 1
>
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> | Name | bits | visible |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | DIT | [51-48] | y |
> + | LS64 | [63-60] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | MPAM | [43-40] | n |
> + | I8MM | [55-52] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | SVE | [35-32] | y |
> + | DGH | [51-48] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | GIC | [27-24] | n |
> + | BF16 | [47-44] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | AdvSIMD | [23-20] | y |
> + | SB | [39-36] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | FP | [19-16] | y |
> + | FRINTTS | [35-32] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | EL3 | [15-12] | n |
> + | GPI | [31-28] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | EL2 | [11-8] | n |
> + | GPA | [27-24] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | EL1 | [7-4] | n |
> + | LRCPC | [23-20] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> - | EL0 | [3-0] | n |
> + | FCMA | [19-16] | y |
> + +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> + | JSCVT | [15-12] | y |
> + +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> + | API | [11-8] | y |
> + +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> + | APA | [7-4] | y |
> + +------------------------------+---------+---------+
> + | DPB | [3-0] | y |
> +------------------------------+---------+---------+
The patch is fine but I just realised that we are really inconsistent
with the non-visible things. We exposed a few hear, I guess in the early
days, and then we stopped, just adding the occasional visible fields.
Shall we drop the 'visible' column altogether and only document the
visible fields here?
--
Catalin
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