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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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.
