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From: Jeff Law <jeffreyalaw@gmail.com>
To: "Christoph Müllner" <christoph.muellner@vrull.eu>,
	binutils@sourceware.org, "Nelson Chu" <nelson@rivosinc.com>,
	"Andrew Waterman" <andrew@sifive.com>,
	"Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	"Jim Wilson" <jim.wilson.gcc@gmail.com>,
	"Philipp Tomsich" <philipp.tomsich@vrull.eu>,
	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	"Kito Cheng" <kito.cheng@gmail.com>,
	"Tsukasa OI" <research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5] RISC-V: Add support for the Zfa extension
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:07:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a149e8c0-2a34-16d0-667e-f9bfb699132f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEg0e7izvcJ8ZouMOs=QT2T-CTS-8DQcYoqYY-im_-gxTrtqbg@mail.gmail.com>



On 6/29/23 01:52, Christoph Müllner wrote:
> The RISC-V Zfa extension has been frozen.
> 
> As this was discussed elsewhere yesterday:
> * Should this patch wait for ratification?
> * Is this blocked by https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-asm-manual/pull/85 ?
> 
> Nelson stated on Apr 12 (response to v4):
> "If there are no new instructions or encodings/formats changed in the
> future spec, then you should commit the patch when the extension is
> ratified."
> 
> 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?

jeff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-29 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-13 13:36 Christoph Muellner
2023-06-29  7:52 ` Christoph Müllner
2023-06-29  8:33   ` Christoph Müllner
2023-06-29 15:07   ` Jeff Law [this message]
2023-06-29 15:10     ` Christoph Müllner
2023-06-29 15:37       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-06-29 15:49         ` Jeff Law
2023-06-29 15:51           ` Philipp Tomsich
2023-06-30 13:40             ` Jeff Law
2023-06-30 14:06               ` Jeff Law
2023-06-30 14:08                 ` Philipp Tomsich
2023-06-30 14:39                   ` Jeff Law
2023-06-29 15:52           ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-06-29 16:03             ` Jeff Law
2023-06-29 16:12               ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-06-30 14:07                 ` Philipp Tomsich
2023-06-30  0:47             ` Nelson Chu
2023-06-30  6:49               ` Kito Cheng
2023-06-30 13:38               ` Jeff Law

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