Re: [RFC PATCH v5] RISC-V: Add support for the Zfa extension

[Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>]

I added a small change to list this in binutils/NEWS.
Please check if we added other extensions in this release that are
missing from there.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 at 07:06, Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/30/23 07:40, Jeff Law wrote:
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> > On 6/29/23 09:51, Philipp Tomsich wrote:
> >> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 08:49, Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> On 6/29/23 09:37, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
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> >>>>>>> So my understanding is that this needs to wait for ratification
> >>>>>>> and is
> >>>>>>> not blocked by the mentioned PR.
> >>>>>> Is there something special about Zfa that makes it desirable to
> >>>>>> wait for
> >>>>>> ratification as opposed to standard practice of gating things as the
> >>>>>> specs get to a Frozen state?
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> >>>>> Not to my knowledge.
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> >>>> Waiting for ratification is probably a bad idea, there's really no way
> >>>> to schedule around it.  That's a big part of the reason we've just
> >>>> waited for frozen.
> >>> Exactly.  ISTM that frozen is the right point to trigger.
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> >> Is this an OK to apply the changes to trunk?
> > I'll do another pass over and assuming everything looks good, I'll
> > commit it later today.  Obviously the main driver is the upcoming 2.41
> > release.  I'd rather have it in before Nick cuts the branch.
> Y'all beat me to it :-)
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> Thanks,
> jeff