[PATCH v1 1/2] RISC-V: Provide a framework for parsing multi-letter ISA extensions
Krzysztof Kozlowski
krzysztof.kozlowski at canonical.com
Sat Dec 25 02:11:15 PST 2021
On 24/12/2021 22:16, Atish Patra wrote:
> Recently, there were 15 specifications/40 ISA extensions were ratified.
> Except hypervisor ('H') extension, all of them are multi-letter extensions.
> Going forward, there will be more number of multi-letter extensions as
> well. Parsing all of these extensions from ISA string is not scalable.
> Thus, this patch provides a DT based framework to for easy parsing and
> querying of any ISA extensions. It facilitates custom user visible strings
> for the ISA extensions via /proc/cpuinfo as well.
>
> Currently, there are no platforms with heterogeneous Linux capable harts.
> That's why, this patch supports only a single DT node which can only work
> for systems with homogeneous harts. To support heterogeneous systems, this
> cpu node must be a subnode for each cpu.
>
> Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp at rivosinc.com>
Your from address does not match SoB. Please use consistent one - they
must match.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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