[PATCH v4 00/11] riscv: spacemit: Add SpacemiT K3 SoC and K3 Pico-ITX board

[Conor Dooley]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 01:18:12PM +0800, Guodong Xu wrote:

> Hi, Conor
> 
> For the binding riscv/extensions.ymal, here's what changed in v3 (no
> change in v4):
> 
>  1. Dropped the patch of adding "supm" into extensions.yaml. At the same
>     time, I will start another patchset which implements the strategy
>     outlined by Conor in Link [2] and by Samuel in Link [3].

Okay, that seems reasonable to separate out.

> 
>  2. Dropped the dependency checks for "sha" on "h", "shcounterenw", and
>     6 others. "sha" implies these extensions, and it should be allowed
>     to be declared independently. Like "a" implies "zaamo" and "zalrsc".
> 
>  3. Enchanced the dependency check of "ziccamoa" on "a". Specifically,
>      - added the dependency check of "ziccamoa" on "zaamo" or on "a".
>      - added the dependency check of "za64rs" on "zalrsc" or on "a".
>      - added the dependency check of "ziccrse" on "zalrsc" or "a".
>     The commit message of this patch is updated too, to better explain the
>     relationship  between "ziccamoa", "za64rs", "ziccrse" and "a".
> 
>  4. Enhanced checking dependency of "b" and "zba", "zbb", "zbs", making the
>     dependency check in both directions, as discussed in [4]. Since "b"
>     was ratified much later than its component extensions (zba/zbb/zbs),
>     existing software and kernels expect these explicit strings. This
>     bidirectional check ensures cores declaring "b" remain compatible
>     with older software that only recognizes zba/zbb/zbs.

This I asked about in the relevant patch, I would like to know what your
plan for adding the "b"s is.

Spacemit folks, I assume you weren't planning on taking the
extensions.yaml stuff via your tree? If you weren't, I'll grab it once
the question about b is answered.
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