A few months ago I submitted a patch to various lists, deprecating
"riscv,isa" with a lengthy commit message [0] that is now commit
aeb71e42caae ("dt-bindings: riscv: deprecate riscv,isa") in the Linux
kernel tree. Primarily, the goal was to replace "riscv,isa" with a new
set of properties that allowed for strictly defining the meaning of
various extensions, where "riscv,isa" was tied to whatever definitions
inflicted upon us by the ISA manual, which have seen some variance over
time.
Two new properties were introduced: "riscv,isa-base" and
"riscv,isa-extensions". The former is a simple string to communicate the
base ISA implemented by a hart and the latter an array of strings used
to communicate the set of ISA extensions supported, per the definitions
of each substring in extensions.yaml [1]. A beneficial side effect was
also the ability to define vendor extensions in a more "official" way,
as the ISA manual and other RVI specifications only covered the format
for vendor extensions in the ISA string, but not the meaning of vendor
extensions, for obvious reasons.
Add support for setting these two new properties in the devicetrees for
the various devicetree platforms supported by QEMU for RISC-V. The Linux
kernel already supports parsing ISA extensions from these new
properties, and documenting them in the dt-binding is a requirement for
new extension detection being added to the kernel.
A side effect of the implementation is that the meaning for elements in
"riscv,isa" and in "riscv,isa-extensions" are now tied together as they
are constructed from the same source. The same applies to the ISA string
provided in ACPI tables, but there does not appear to be any strict
definitions of meanings in ACPI land either.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-riscv/20230702-eats-scorebook-c951f170d29f@spud/ [0]
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/riscv/extensions.yaml [1]
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>
Message-ID: <20240124-unvarying-foothold-9dde2aaf95d4@spud>
[ Changes by AF:
- Rebase on recent changes
]
Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
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