[PATCH v1] dt-bindings: riscv: explicitly mention assumption of Zicsr & Zifencei support

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at dabbelt.com
Mon May 1 17:00:15 PDT 2023


On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 03:43:42 PDT (-0700), Conor Dooley wrote:
> The dt-binding was defined before the extraction of csr access and
> fence.i into their own extensions, and thus the presence of the I
> base extension implies Zicsr and Zifencei.
> There's no harm in adding them obviously, but for backwards
> compatibility with DTs that existed prior to that extraction, software
> is unable to differentiate between "i" and "i_zicsr_zifencei" without
> any further information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> ---
> CC: Conor Dooley <conor at kernel.org>
> CC: Rob Herring <robh+dt at kernel.org>
> CC: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt at linaro.org>
> CC: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley at sifive.com>
> CC: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>
> CC: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
> CC: devicetree at vger.kernel.org
> CC: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> index 4c7ce4a37052..a93bc7eae928 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/cpus.yaml
> @@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ properties:
>        User-Level ISA document, available from
>        https://riscv.org/specifications/
>
> +      Due to revisions of the ISA specification, some deviations
> +      have arisen over time.
> +      Notably, riscv,isa was defined prior to the creation of the
> +      Zicsr and Zifencei extensions and thus "i" implies
> +      "zicsr_zifencei".

also Zihpm and Zicntr.  I'm going to put this one on for-next, though.

Thanks!

> +
>        While the isa strings in ISA specification are case
>        insensitive, letters in the riscv,isa string must be all
>        lowercase to simplify parsing.



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