On 6/27/22 2:11 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 2022-06-27 06:12, Samuel Holland wrote: >> The interface for SiFive's PLIC was adopted and clarified by RISC-V as >> the standard PLIC interface. Now that several PLIC implementations by >> different vendors share this same interface, it is somewhat misleading >> to report "SiFive PLIC" to userspace, when no SiFive hardware may be >> present. This is especially the case when some implementations are >> subtly incompatible with the binding and behavior of the SiFive PLIC, >> yet are similar enough to share a driver. > > Too late. This is ABI, and not changing, exactly because userspace > sees it. That makes sense. I will drop this patch. Regards, Samuel
